Lucretius , mournfully defcribing the Plague at Athens , of which 
Thucydides has left us fo ample a Relation, records the Infe&ion 
being likewife fpread among the Cow-kind: See lib. vi. 1 . 1129. 
Coniimili ratione venit bubiis quoque fsepe 
Peftilitas, etiam pecubus balantibus segror. 
Soon after the Times of Conftantine the Greats one Severus Sanffus a 
Chriftian Poet has left us a melancholy Account of a Murrain then 
reigning among the Cows, in a Latin Eclogue, intituled, Carmen de 
mortibus bourn , which was reprinted at Leyden, in the Year 17*15.8*, 
In the Beginning of his Poem the Author defcribes the fudden De- 
ftru&ion that Diftemper carried with it, and the Progrels it made in 
Europe fo like what it has now done, that I believe tranfcribing his> 
Words will not be difagreeable. Line 13. Buculus fays 
Scis, AZgon, gregibusquam fuerim potens^ 
Uc totis pecudes ftuminibus vagae 
Complerent etiam concava vallium, 
Campos, et juga montium. 
Nunc lapfapenitus fpes opis eft meae; 
Et, longus peperit quae labor omnibus 
Vitx temporibus, perdita biduo. 
Curfus tarn citus eft malis. 
JEgon goes on \ 
Haecjam diralues ferpere dicitun 
Pridem Vannonios , Illyricos quoque, 
Et Belgas graviter ftravit ; et impio 
Curfu nos quoque nunc petit* 
We fee, by thefe Accounts of the Murrain among Beafts and Cat- 
tle, that this dreadful Diftemper has often accompanied or preceded 
the Blague among the human Species : What Pains therefore does it 
behove Us to take to prevent the fpreading of this Difeafe among; 
Brutes? and what Warning ought Man to take, left thePeftilence 
ftiould come home to Him ? as the Poet fays above, 
Ne impio curfu Nos quoque nunc petat , 
