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he gained admission to the palace and made an attempt to aasaasinate the Viscount, but was caught in the act. The Viscoant generoosh forgave him; whereupon he blackened himself until he was unrecog- nisable even by his wife, swallowed charcoal to make himself Tomit, and disguised as a beggar again lay in wait for his victim in the market-place. Again he was caught, and this time he implored tiie Viscount to let him ease his conscience by at any rate passing his gword through the Viscount's coat. The latter assented. A coat wis handed to him, through which he ran his dagger; and then turning the point upon himself, he put an eifd to his life. 2526 Ya Liang j^^ (T. jf^Y Died A.D. 340. A man of the Chin dynasty, who rose to high office under the Emperor Yfian Ti (see Niu Jui)^ and whose sister was married to the Heir Apparent, afterwards the Emperor Ming Ti. When the latter came to the throne, and the rebellion of Wang Tun broke out, Yfi Liang was placed in command of a division of the Imperial army, and aided in restoring peace. He always showed great devotion to the Emperor's person, and was associated with Wang Tao in the government When under the next reign Su Chfln rebelled, he failed to leid his army to victory, and was beaten before Nanking and forced to flee from the field. The Emperor pardoned him, and appointed him Governor of Yfl-chou; and before long he had succeeded, in con- junction with T*ao K*an, in suppressing the insurrection of |^ S|K Kuo Mo. Canonised as ^ J^.

Ytl-lin Wang. See Hsiao Chao-yeh.

2627 Ytl Ltl H H. Younger brother of Shu Yfl (1).

2628 Yil SMh-oM ^ ift g (T. ^ift). Died A.D. 618. Elder brother of Yii Shih-nan. Possessed of great learning and ability, and skilled in writing the It and "grass" scripts, he rose to high office under the Emperor Yang Ti of the Stui dynasty. Finding his counsels disregarded by that monarch, ajid fearing to lose his life