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How long could druid training last according to Caesar?

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According to the accounts of Julius Caesar, the training for druids could last as long as 20 years.

While Caesar described them as teachers who operated training schools for new members, modern historians generally view his accounts with skepticism, noting that he may have projected Roman societal structures onto the Gaulish people to justify imperial expansion.12