In a short while the generations of living creatures are changed, and like runners relay… — Lucretius
In a short while the generations of living creatures are changed, and like runners relay the torch of life.
In the original Latin
Inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum et quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt.
On the Nature of Things · 50 BC
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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 2, l. 75.
Original citation
Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 2, l. 75.
