Note 109 — NOTES ON SENECA’S “QUAESTIONES NATURALES”
John Clarke translation
Lucretius, too, had his views on evolution, which are well expressed in four lines of verse:
mutat enim mundi naturam totius aetas, ex alioque alius status excipere omnia debet, nec manet ulla sui similis res: omnia migrant, omnia commutat natura et vertere cogit.
—De Rer. Nat. v. 828.