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² *Cf.* *Garbe*, l.c., p. 136 ff. E. *Schrader* (Introduction to his translation, p. xxiii f.) assumes that there were seven different recensions or revisions of this work. In my opinion, gradual interpolations and additions should be assumed, rather than revisions. I do not see sufficient reasons for declaring the whole of Book III to be spurious, as do *Garbe* and *Schrader*. *Senart* (JA 1892, sér. 8, t. xix, p. 343) and *Barth* (Œuvres II, p. 171) already declared the end of Book III (Trenckner's ed., p. 89) to be the final portion of the original work. Similarly *Pelliot*, JA, s. II, t. IV, 1914, p. 418.