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52.
An aggravation of the existing calamity was
the influx from the country into the city, and this was especially felt by
the new arrivals.
[2]
As there were no houses to receive them, they had to be lodged at the hot
season of the year in stifling cabins, where the mortality raged without
restraint.
The bodies of dying men lay one upon another, and half-dead creatures
reeled about the streets and gathered round all the fountains in their
longing for water.
[3]
The sacred places also in which they had quartered themselves were full of
corpses of persons that had died there, just as they were; for as the disaster passed all bounds, men, not knowing what was to become
of them, became utterly careless of everything, whether sacred or profane.
[4]
All the burial rites before in use were entirely upset, and they buried the
bodies as best they could.
Many from want of the proper appliances, through so many of their friends
having died already, had recourse to the most shameless sepultures:
sometimes getting the start of those who had raised a pile, they threw their
own dead body upon the stranger's pyre and ignited it; sometimes they tossed the corpse which they were carrying on the top of
another that was burning, and so went off.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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