VII. 25; IV. 20 & V. 23; IX. 43; V. 15; VII. 26; V. 4 & XI. 39; VIII. ii ;

' See Legge's Classics, vol. V, Prolegomena p. 27. Legge thinks that the Tso Chuan must have been written in the 5th century, but .not before 424 B.C.
2 The instances quoted are: — III. 14, 15: ||J is said to be equivalent to || ;
IL I5: M = K; VIL 28: H - ,t ; XL 6o: ^ - 1¥ 5 XL 24; the use
of pj instead of g| (the later form); XI. 64: f^ = >^; IX. 3: ^g = ^;