And many species of animals must have perished at that time, unable by procreation to forge out the chain of posterity: for whatever you see feeding on the breath of life, either cunning or courage or at least quickness must have guarded and kept that kind from its earliest existence.
Multaque tum interiisse animantum saecla necessest
nec potuisse propagando procudere prolem.
nam quae cumque vides vesci vitalibus auris,
aut dolus aut virtus aut denique mobilitas est
ex ineunte aevo genus id tuta reservans.
nec potuisse propagando procudere prolem.
nam quae cumque vides vesci vitalibus auris,
aut dolus aut virtus aut denique mobilitas est
ex ineunte aevo genus id tuta reservans.
Original text (Latin)