History of the Peloponnesian War

But those that were recovered had much compassion both on them that died and on them that lay sick, as having both known the misery themselves and now no more subject to the danger. For this disease never took any man the second time so as to be mortal. And these men were both by others counted happy, and they also themselves, through excess of present joy, conceived a kind of light hope never to die of any other sickness hereafter.

Besides the present affliction, the reception of the country people and of their substance into the city oppressed both them and much more the people themselves that so came in.