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40 Han characters · 35 distinct forms · 6 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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謂然友曰：
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「吾他日未嘗學問，Track speakers and addressees ↗「吾他日未嘗學問，Keep different negatives apart ↗今也父兄百官不我足也，Keep different negatives apart ↗恐其不能盡於大事，Locate a relation ↗Watch recurrence: 問 × 2 也 × 2 不 × 2 我 × 2 子 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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孟子 · 滕文公上謂然友曰滕定公薨，世子謂然友曰：「昔者孟子嘗與我言於宋，於心終不忘。今也不幸至於大故，吾欲使子問於孟子，然後行事。
孟子 · 滕文公上父兄百官然友反命，定為三年之喪。父兄百官皆不欲也，故曰：「吾宗國魯先君莫之行，吾先君亦莫之行也，至於子之身而反之，不可。
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- Work
- 孟子 · Mencius
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Meng Ke (Mencius) and his followers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR1h0001 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR1h0001_005.txt, lines 113–118. MENG 3A02:07; tr. D. C. Lau 1.95
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