Among a certain number of writers this tendency is wedded with another, no less important, that consists in suggesting, in some seemingly objective format, relationships and meanings that are understood only by those most attentive. I stated earlier, in connection with the first of the procedures of Thucydides, one means of doing this, specifically the use of verbal similarities. But this method is not, among those authors mentioned, the only one, any more than it is the sole method in Thucydides' work. Actually, in both, multiple resources of composition and of arrangement join to complete it. These different qualities are explained by the obligations that all authors impose on themselves, for different reasons, to fold into their work a meaning that has not been formulated anywhere else.