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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 604 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 2)

Lewis Evans translation

Torrentem. So i., 9, "Torrens dicendi copia;" iii., 74, "Isæo torrentior." At the approach of Antipater, Demosthenes fled from Athens, and took refuge in the temple of Poseidon at Calaureia, near Argolis; and fearing to fall into the hands of Archias, took poison, which he carried about with him in a reed, or, as Pliny says, in a ring, xxxiii., 1.

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