Part 124

An extract will be found on p. xlv.

武所著書凡數十萬言曹魏武帝削其繁剩筆其精切凡十三篇成爲一編.

其所爲注解十不釋一此蓋非曹不能盡注解也.

予尋魏志見曹自作兵書十餘萬言諸將征戰皆以新書從事從令者克捷違教者負敗意曹自於 新書中馳驟其說自成一家事業不欲隨孫武後盡解其書不然者曹其不能耶今新書已亡不可復知.

魏氏瑣連孫武之法.

See 孫子兵法序.

謙言解其觕略.

Ch. 99, fol. 5 r^o.

然史記稱十三篇在漢志之前不得以後來附益者爲本書牧之言固未可以爲據也.

Shih Chi, ch. 65 ad fin: 世俗所稱師旅皆道孫子十三篇吳起兵法世多有故弗論.

葉適 Yeh Shih of the Sung dynasty [1151–1223]. See 文獻通考, ch. 221, ff. 7, 8.

See Tso Chuan 隱公, I. 3 ad fin. and XI. 3 ad init. He hardly deserves to be bracketed with assassins.

See pp. 66, 128.

See Tso Chuan, 僖公, XXX. 5.

See p. 128. Chuan Chu is the abbreviated form of his name.

I.e. Po P‘ei. See ante.

遷載孫武齊人而用於吳在闔閭時破楚入郢爲大將按左氏無孫武他書所有左氏不必 盡有然穎考叔曹劌燭之武鱄設諸之流微賤暴用事左氏未嘗遺而武功名章灼如此乃更闕又 同時伍員宰嚭一一銓次乃獨不及武邪.

The nucleus of this work is probably genuine, though large additions have been made by later hands. Kuan Chung died in 645 B.C.

See Infra, p. 1.

I do not know what work this is, unless it be the last chapter of the 國語. Why that chapter should be singled out, however, is not clear.

About 480 B.C.

詳味孫子與管子六韜越語相出入春秋末戰國初山林處士所爲其言得用於吳者其徒 夸大之說也.

That is, I suppose, the age of Wu Wang and Chou Kung.

In the 3rd century B.C.

Ssŭ-ma Jang-chü, whose family name was 田 T‘ien, lived in the latter half of the 6th century B.C., and is also believed to have written a work on war. See Shih Chi, ch. 64, and infra, p. 1.

自周之盛至春秋凡將兵者必與聞國政未有特將於外者六國時此制始改吳雖蠻夷而孫武爲 大將乃不爲命卿而左氏無傳焉可乎故凡謂穰苴孫武者皆辯士妄相標指非事實其言闔閭試以婦 人尤爲奇險不足信.

See the end of the passage quoted from the Shih Chi on p. xii.

In the 書錄解題, a classified catalogue of his family library.