ts'o

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Ying Shao, in a note to this passage, interprets ts'o by chih

The History of the Former Han Dynasty 1944
This interpretation of ts'o by chih is repeated by Yen Shih-ku in a note to HS 6: 4a and by Yang Liang in a note to Hsün-tzu 20: 3b.

The History of the Former Han Dynasty 1944
The former meaning is illustrated in Hsün-tzu, ch. 28, 20: 3a (Wang Hsien-ch'ien's ed.), "For this reason the severity of [the ancient sage-kings] was exhibited but not used and the [mutilating] punishments were established but not employed [omission: Chinese characters]," in which passage parallelism compels us to interpret ts'o as meaning "establish."

The History of the Former Han Dynasty 1944