qualis Erectheos pestis populata colonos extulit antiquas per funera pacis Athenas, alter in alterius labens cum fata ruebant, nec locus artis erat medicae nec vota valebant; cesserat officium morbis, et funera derant mortibus et lacrimae; lassus defecerat ignis et coacervatis ardebant corpora membris, ac tanto quondam populo vix contigit heres.
Such was the plague which ravaged Erechtheus folk and bore forth ancient Athens to an unwarlike grave, when, hard on each others heels, men trod the steep road of death: no place was there for a doctors skill, no prayers availed; duty fell a prey to sickness, and none were left to bury, none to weep the dead; the wearied fires sufficed not for their office, and limbs piled on limbs the corpses burnt: hardly was an heir to be found in that nation once so vast.
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