CHAPTER 19. MENCIUS COMFORTS MIH K'E UNDER CALUMNY BY THE REFLECTION THAT IT WAS THE ORDINARY LOT OF DISTINGUISHED MEN.
1. Of Mih K'e, nothing is known beyond what is here intimated. 理 is used in the sense of 赖, "to depend on". This is given to it in the dict., with a reference to this passage. The meaning is that not only did he not have a good word from men, but was spoken ill of by them.