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  • Thus the sum
    Forever is replenished, and we live
    As mortals by eternal give and take.
    The nations wax, the nations wane away;
    In a brief space the generations pass,
    And like to runners hand the lamp of life
    One unto other.

    Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.214, Delphi Classics