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Quotation from The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch

“Nor could the physicians help, for the disease attacked them also, and the contact of the sick gave them infection”

Thomas Bulfinch (spoken by Aeacus)

The Age of Fable, Chapter XII, Cadmus--The Myrmidons (Project Gutenberg #4925)

Portrait of Thomas Bulfinch

King Aeacus describes the plague Juno sent on Aegina, following Ovid's account, before Jupiter repeoples the island with ants turned into men.

Citation: "Nor could the physicians help, for the disease attacked them also, and the contact of the sick gave them infection" — Thomas Bulfinch, The Age of Fable, Chapter XII, Cadmus--The Myrmidons (Project Gutenberg #4925). (id bulfinch-age-of-fable-q7)

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