Λοιμός
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"Herodotus, in the Eighth Book of his History, tells us about the saving of Greece by loimos (possibly plague and dysentery), when Xerxes entered Thessalia with an army estimated at about 800,000 men. Soon after Greek territory was entered, supplies began to fail, and disease stepped upon the heels of undernourishment and hardship. The campaign was abandoned, and the Persian king swept back into Asia with less than half a million followers." --Rats, Lice and History (1935) by Hans Zinsser |
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Λοιμός is the Greek word for plague.
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