Under  the  latest  or  third  phase  of  his  conception,  of  course  he  reinserted  the
passages  referring  to  the  war  in  Greece.
'  i.e.  V.  20  (2)-v.  24,  excluding  possibly  v.  23-24  (i).
*  i.e.  those  passages  in  i.-v.  20  (i)  which  refer  to  late  events  and  the  text  of
the  One  Year's  Truce.
'  i.e.  v.  25-117.  '  i.e.  vii.  29,  87.  '  i.e.  Book  viii.
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How  far  did  he  carry  his  intention  to  completion  ?  If  the  conclusions
which  have  been  arrived  at  in  these  chapters  be  correct  or  approxi-
mately correct,  the  noticeable  fact  has  been  established  that  there  is  no
evidence  of  rewriting  in  his  work.  The  revision,  so  far  as  it  was
accomplished,  took  one  of  two  forms  :  in  the  majority  of  cases  the
insertion  of  passages  in  pre-existing  text :  in  some  cases,  perhaps,
the  substitution  of  the  text  of  a  document  for  a  pre-existing  general
statement  as  to  the  nature  of  its  contents.  But  there  is  a  further
peculiarity  noticeable  in  these  passages  of  late  date  of  insertion.
