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Of these books, he composed the first two in his passage over the Alps, as he was returning to the army after making his circuit in Hither-Gaul; the second work about the time of the battle of Munda; and the last during the four-and-twenty days he employed in his journey from Rome to Farther-Spain.
VII. Farther-Spain fell to his lot as quaestor; when there, as he was going the circuit of the province, by commission from the praetor, for the administration of justice, and had reached Gades, seeing a statue of Alexander the Great in the temple of Hercules, he sighed deeply, as if weary of his sluggish life, for having performed no memorable actions at an age at which Alexander had already conquered the world.
XVIII. At the expiration of his praetorship he obtained by lot the Farther-Spain , and pacified his creditors, who were for detaining him, by finding sureties for his debts . Contrary, however, to both law and custom, he took his departure before the usual equipage and outfit were prepared.
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