[182] See Giles’ Dictionary, no. 9817. [183] 不入虎穴不得虎子 “Unless you enter the tiger’s lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger’s cubs.” [184] “Aids to Scouting,” p. 2. [185] _Ch‘ien Han Shu_, ch. 43, fol. 1. 顔師古 Yen Shih-ku _in loc._ says: 食音異其音基. [186] “Unterricht des Königs von Preussen an die Generale seiner Armeen,” cap. 12 (edition of 1794). [187] “Marshal Turenne,” p. 311. Transcriber’s Note: Text Notes: 1. The text contains Chinese characters. Character variants matching the printed text are used whenever possible rather than more common versions. Only Unicode normalized form C versions were used (see below). For best results, insure that the eReader has the latest Chinese font packages. 2. Italicized text is indicated with leading and trailing underscores (_). Superscript text is indicated with a leading caret (^). If more than one character, the text is wrapped in braces({}). Ordinal numbers with superscripts (i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.) are printed without the caret. 3. Footnotes have been renumbered and placed at the end of the book. 4. Smaller font text blocks such as contained in block quotes and annotation text is indented. The original printed text did not indent this text. 5. In the Introduction pages xi and xii, sentence groups in the quotation from Ssŭ-ma Ch‘ien’s biography of Sun Tzŭ separated by em-dashes are now separated into paragraphs for clarity. 6. In the original book, several Chinese text lines were placed in the top quarter of a page and the translation in the bottom three quarters of the page. This transcription places each Chinese text line above its corresponding translation. 7. Missing quotation marks, capitalization, punctuation, and spaces silently corrected. 8. Except as mentioned above and in the Change List that follows, every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including non-standard punctuation, inconsistently hyphenated words, etc. The corrigenda has already been incorporated into the text. Change List (page numbers from original printed book): Page x befel changed to befell Page xx then changed to them Page xxv abready changed to already Page xxxi surrived changed to survived Page xlviii footnote #1 have changed to I have Page xlviii combine two instances of footnote #4 Page 17 according to Ssŭ-ma Fa, changed to according to the _Ssŭ-ma Fa_, Page 29 and 62 Using variant 獲 (U+7372) in place of 𫉬 (U+2B26C) since the latter code point is not handled by some TTS systems. Page 39 meaniug changed to meaning Page 44 succeding changed to succeeding Page 70 exclained changed to exclaimed Page 125 σωθεῖτε changed to σωθείητε Page 136 Chang Yü adopts its, changed to Chang Yü adopts it,