Note that both these words, like the Chinese 懸權, are really
metaphors derived from the use of scales.
before you make a move.
Chang Yü quotes 尉繚子 as saying that we must not break camp until
we have gauged the resisting power of the enemy and the cleverness
of the opposing general. Cf. the “seven comparisons” in I. § 13.
Capt. Calthrop omits this sentence.