THESES ON THE PLAGUE.

I.
Pestilence, plague, pestilential state, and pestilent contagion, all signify one and nearly the same thing.

II.
Although they are sometimes taken to mean destruction original: "ἀποφθορᾷ", we use them here to mean a disease.

III.
It is agreed by the common judgment of all men that the plague is a common disease.

IIII.
Therefore, it will be either epidemic or endemic.

V.
But since an endemic disease continually afflicts a place through some common cause, we cannot place the plague in this category.

VI.
It must therefore be referred to the epidemic class. Truly, since this class is twofold, either healthy or unhealthy, I state that the plague belongs to the latter.

VII.
Therefore, the plague is an epidemic disease, for the most part pernicious.

VIII.
I understand these conditions also in their first actuality.

IX.
Therefore, they do not seem to think correctly who do not wish the plague