Note 944 — Chapter VI · LUCAN: HISTORICAL EPIC
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He carries condensation too far, e.g. II. 35, diuisere deos=“they divided the gods,” i.e. Roman ladies took their prayers to different temples; or he uses an over-fanciful conceit, e.g. II. 72, depositum applied to Marius, the exile, as “the deposit” entrusted by Fortune to the marshes. But such phrases have at least the intended quality of being striking.