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46 THE ANALECTS : INTRODUCTION,
in his note to Ill. 24, he says " Conf. was retiring from
Wei, the prince of which could not employ him." The
commentators are uncertain about the site of I F&:g
_-_ but generally ascribe it to modern Lanyang hsien
i_ _ ,_,, in K'aif_ng fu _ _ /]_, Honan. If they
are correct in their surmise then the incident here referred
t0 cannot have taken place, on this journey.
Arriving at the capital of Wei, the brother-in-law of his
disciple Tzfi Lu became his host.* Duke Ling _ a
man whose moral character seems to have been even
more dissipated than that of Duke Ting whom Confucius
had just lett, hearing of the arrival of his illustrious guest,
assigned him an annual income of sixty thousand measures
of grain.
After ten months stay he left for Ch'_n _J_ a State
which was considerably to the Southward of Wei. His
road lay through a place called K'uang 1__, where his
resemblance to Yang Huo (the 1_ b_ or [_ _. already ,
named), at whose hands the people of K'uang had
formerly suffered, placed him in serious jeopardy. His
disciples were greatly alarmed, but their Master bore
himself with hue philosophic calm. IX. 5; XI. 22.
Escaping from his assailants be returned to safety in Wei.
Jn passing he called at a house where he had formerly
lodged, and there found that his host had lately died.
The grief of the family aroused his compassion, and he
ordered Tzfi Kung to unyoke one of the horses from his
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