. On the other hand, if we choose to disregard the tradition connecting Sun Wu’s name with Ho Lu , it might equally well have seen the light between 496 and 494, or possibly in the period 482⁠–⁠473, when Yüeh was once again becoming a very serious menace. 76 We may feel fairly certain that the author, whoever he may have been, was not a man of any great eminence in his own day. On this point the negative testimony of the Tso Chuan far outweighs any shred of authority still attaching to the Shih Chi , if once its other facts are discredited. Sun Hsing-yen , however, makes a feeble attempt to explain the omission of his name from the great commentary. It was Wu Tzǔ-hsü , he says, who got all the credit of Sun Wu’s