...cia has met someone with who she has fallen in love. But the arrangement of poems in a collection need not have anything to do with any story-lines that run through them; Catullus , the end of the Lesbia affair, comes before , the beginning. Kirby Flower Smith, in his commentary on the Tibullan corpus, speculates that this poem chronologically follows : Sulpicia and Cerinthus quarrel, he protests...