When the enemy’s men were scattered, they prevented them from
concentrating;
Capt. Calthrop translates 卒離 “they scattered the enemy,” which
cannot be right.
even when their forces were united, they managed to keep them in
disorder.
Mei Yao-ch‘ên’s note makes the sense plain: 或已離而不能合或雖合而
不能齊. All these clauses, of course, down to 不齊, are dependent
on 使 in § 15.