Book of Odes · Mao witness · 小雅
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荀子 · 正論篇第十八噂沓背憎《詩》曰：「下民之孼，匪降自天；噂沓背憎，職競由人。」此之謂也。
詩經 · 巧言無罪無辜悠悠昊天！曰父母且。無罪無辜。亂如此幠。昊天已威！予慎無罪。昊天大幠！予慎無辜。
詩經 · 瞻卬匪降自天婦！為梟為鴟。婦有長舌，維厲之階。亂匪降自天，生自婦人。匪教匪誨，時維婦寺！
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- Work
- 詩經 · Book of Odes · Mao witness
- Attribution
- Anonymous poems transmitted in the Mao tradition, with received prefaces and ancillary prose; individual attribution is uncertain.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR1c0001 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR1c0001_019.txt, lines 338–345. SHI 193.7
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- Source spelling and punctuation retained. Encoding headers, page markers, paragraph markers, whitespace, and leading section numbers are removed from the reading view. No silent script conversion or textual correction.
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