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弘明集 6.58

弘明集 6.58

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Classical Chinese

6.58

答彼周曰。虞芮二國之鬪田。非文王所知也。碎白玉以泯鬪其別有尊者乎。況夜戰一鴻妄軍鳧乙。斯自鹿巾之空負頭上。環杖之自誣掌中。吾安得了之哉。

Replying to Zhou: The contention over land between the two states of Yu and Rui was not something King Wen was concerned about. When white jade is broken to quell a dispute, is there not something else more revered? How much more so when, fighting over a single swan by night, one falsely arrays ducks and swallows as armies! This is truly a case of wearing the deer-skin turban in vain on one's head and falsely holding the ringed staff in one's hand. How could I ever settle it?

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