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[5] It also seems likely that the place itself was responsible for the excessive extent of the disaster; for on a former occasion the Athenians too, who occupied the same camp, had perished in great numbers from the plague,1 since the terrain was marshy and in a hollow.

1 Cp. Book 13.12.

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