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Now the plague first attacked the Libyans, and, as many of them perished, at first they buried the dead, but later, both because of the multitude of corpses and because those who tended the sick were seized by the plague, no one dared approach the suffering.1 When even nursing was thus omitted, there was no remedy for the disaster.

1 Perhaps the text added: "or the dead."

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