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Thucydides -- Greek historian of the 5th century BC. He lived through the great plague at Athens and wrote an account of it in his history. I think he may even have caught it but recovered, but I'm not sure. Nobody can identify what the plague was but I have heard a theory that it might have been the first outbreak of measles.
It's a tad too long to quote here, but you can find a translation of Thucydides's description of the plague at http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_thucydides_plague.htm
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