24. 角之而知有餘不足之處

Carefully compare the opposing army with your own,

Tu Yu is right, I think, in attributing this force to 角; Ts‘ao

Kung defines it simply as 量. Capt. Calthrop surpasses himself with

the staggering translation “Flap the wings”! Can the Latin _cornu_

(in its figurative sense) have been at the back of his mind?

so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is

deficient.

Cf. IV. § 6.

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