For more attentive readers, those who really try to have a clear view into events (1.22.4:"those wishing to study the clarity of what happened and what is going to happen once again"), this aspect of the work allows for a deeper comprehension of the facts, their connections, and their links to each other. To the extent that these relationships and linkages are placed there by Thucydides, it also allows the critics to retrace their thinking. One has simply to determine what is intentional or not, personal or not.In the matter of intentions, one can never be positive, but this case resembles that of verbal similarities: pauses, breaks, correspondences, indicate in all cases the way Thucydides perceives reality. The subtlety of the relationships expresses the subtlety of his thinking; their sharpness reveals its power.