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Public health and contagion
Plague regimens, airs and waters, and the duty owed to a whole city at once.
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Contagion and public duty
Built from source text and labels about plague, contagion, city health, and public duty.
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- CHANT CINQUIÈME.French · 19th century · English available
What innumerable crowd intoning its Canticles, Floods the porticoes of the Temple of Lucina? Enter the forecourt, young women, enter; I am going to reveal to you the sacred myst...
La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe - CHANT CINQUIÈME.French · 19th century · English available
We have admired the structure of the pelvis, And in her very temple adored Nature. Let us follow her step by step, catch her in the act, Seek to snatch from her some new benefac...
La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe - CHANT HUITIÈME.French · 19th century · English available
The God who unites the destiny of lovers, Has two famous Temples for the bonds of Hymen, One close to Amathus, is in those gentle climes, That winter never sullied with its fros...
La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe - CHANT NEUVIÈME.French · 19th century · English available
In that age close to the infancy of the world Where innocence reigned, a fertile woman, Always after nine months, with impunity, Paid the happy tribute of maternity. Upon a bed...
La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe - CHANT QUATRIÈME.French · 19th century · English available
MUSE, before sowing in the fields of Lucina, Deign to permit at least that my hand uproot The numerous prejudices, the fatal abuses, With which Routine and art are both imbued....
La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe - CHANT SIXIÈME.French · 19th century · English available
I have sung of Nature and her Temple, or womb, And her inherent force and her expulsive force. Muse, tell us how, without support, without aid, Fanni alone brought forth the fru...
La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe - CHANT TROISIÈME.French · 19th century · English available
I have crossed the Cocytus, and we gain the road Which must guide my steps beneath the infernal vault Of the odious empire of which Pluto is the King. All my senses are seized w...
La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe - De Cicuta.Latin · 15th century · English available
The harsh nature of *Cicuta* is a lethal power, wherefore it kills those who drink it in the manner of a cold poison; whoever perishes by this herb, his skin becomes spotted. Fr...
De viribus herbarum - AD CLARISS. VIRVM IOA- chimum Camerarium, Petri Lotichij Secundi. E L E G I A.Latin · 16th century · English available
You ask, Joachimus, from where the words you read, Composed in unevenly joined measures, bring greeting. From here, where the Seine separates the Belgae from the borders Of the...
Poemata - AD HILARIVM CANCIVNCV- lam, De peſte Patauina, & obitu Danielis Stibari. ELEGIA VI.Latin · 16th century · English available
Dire contagions creep through the Euganean city, It is time to leave the glassy waters of the Medoacus. Whether the dog of Erigone pollutes the tainted breezes, Or the lake, and...
Poemata - AD IOHANNEM STIGELIVM Poëtam, de monumentis prope Nemau- ſum, in Gallia Narbonenſi. E L E G I A.Latin · 16th century · English available
While you write of the stars gliding in the vaulted sky, And the sacred rites and days among your people, We, Stigelius, live far away on unknown shores, By the western waters o...
Poemata - CARMEN, IN NVPTIAS ILLV- STRISS. PRINCIPIS, D. D. IO- ANNIS GVILIELMI, Ducis Saxoniæ, &c. & SVSANNAE DOROTHEAE, illuſtriß. P. FRIDERICI Elect. Palatini ad Rhenum, Boiariæ Ducis, &c. filiæ :Latin · 16th century · English available
You Muses, who sing to me of the marriages of kings, To whom the long succession of time, to whom deep antiquity, And the faithful guardianship of perpetual fame is entrusted, W...
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