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reign he was Prime Minister and Grand Secretary, and his son had married an Imperial princess. The next Emperor, Ghia 0h4ng, appointed him to superintend the funeral obsequies of his predecessor; but then, suspecting him of designs upon the throne, he caused him to be seized and tried for corruption and undue familiarity. He was condemned to death, and allowed to commit suicide, his vast fortune being confiscated.

Ho Shu. 12th cent. B.C. Tounger brother of Wu Wang. He joined in the plot to deprive his nephew of the throne, which was crushed by Ghou Eung. See Kuan Shu Htien.

Ho Ti. See (Han) Liu Chao; (Ch'i) Hsiao Pao-jung.

Ho Tien  (T. ^^). A.D. 436-504. A scholar and recluse, whose father had been out of his mind and had murdered Ho Tien*s mother, for which he sufifored death when the boy was only eleven years of age. The latter, on reaching manhood, although a handsome and intelligent youth, registered a vow neither to marry nor to enter into official life. He passed his days roaming about in most unconyentional dress, and was often brought home drunk. The first Emperor of the Liang dynasty, who had been an old firiend, sent for him to Court, presented him with a deerskin cap, and wanted to give him a poet; but Ho Tien aeiied the Emperor's beard and cried out, ^^Why, you would make a Minister of Lao Till himself!** He was allowed to depart in peace, and retired with his two brothers into seelosion. They are sometimes spoken of as ^ P^'^ ^ the lliree Lofty Ones of the Ho fiimily. Ho Tien himself being popularly known as [§ m the Recluse Scholar.

Ho Ts'êng (T. ) A.D. 199-278. A native of Tangwhsia in Honan, who held h^ office under the Emperor Ming Ti of the Wei dynasty. Diagraated with the monopoly of pow«r by Ti^ao Shoang, he retired for a time firom pahlk life,