Assertion: plague | /r/HasProperty | devastating
Facets:
value: before the advent of antibiotics
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Before the advent of antibiotics, the plague was devastating, and it could stop armies in their tracks, empty cities, and decimate communities.
text: The Plague of Athens was a devastating epidemic which hit the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece during the second year of the Peloponnesian War (430 BC), when an Athenian victory still seemed within reach.