Editorial note — Chapter XV
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would be applicable to the adventures and dangers of Julius Caesar in further Spain in 61 b.c. There is no difficulty in supposing that the two young friends went together on two different occasions on the staff of two different provincial governors. The tone of the two different sets of poems is so different, the one set so bright and happy, the other so savage and bitter, that it is almost inconceivable that they belong to the same time and the same circumstances.