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It neither commenced according to any fixed period, nor was the time of its cessation uniform but it seized upon some places at the commencement of winter, others in the course of the spring, others during the summer, and in some cases, when the autumn was advanced. Some cities were so severely afflicted as to be altogether depopulated, though in other places the visitation was less violent. It took its rise from Aethiopia, as is now reported, and made a circuit of the whole world in succession, leaving, as I suppose, no part of the human race unvisited by the disease. Two years after the capture of Antioch by the Persians, a pestilence broke out, in some respects similar to that described by Thucydides, in others widely different. I WILL also describe the circumstances of the pestilence which commenced at that period, and has now prevailed and extended over the whole world for fifty-two years a circumstance such as has never before been recorded. Walford (1846) Book 4, Chapter XXIX: Pestillence Du er her: Hjem > MedHist > Sygdomme > EvagriusScholasticus.php Evagrius Scholasticus: Ecclesiastical History Translated by E.
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