The infected were treated with inhuman barbarity, and retorted with savage fury, battering their assailants with the pestiferous bodies of unburied victims.
[Footnote 236: Mutinelli, _op.

cit._ vol.in.pp.

229-233.

Botta has given an account of this plague in the twenty-sixth book of his _History_.] [Footnote 237: Mutinelli, _op.

cit._ vol.ii.pp.