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40 Han characters · 33 distinct forms · 7 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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禮者、貴賤有等，
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荀子 · 禮論篇第十九長幼有差又好其別。曷謂別？」曰：「貴賤有等，長幼有差，貧富輕重皆有稱者也。故天子大路越席，所以養體也；側載睪芷，所以養鼻也；前有錯衡，所
荀子 · 大略篇第二十七大夫裨冕天子山冕，諸侯玄冠，大夫裨冕，士韋弁，禮也。
荀子 · 君子篇第二十四貴賤有等王之道也。故尚賢、使能，則主尊下安；貴賤有等，則令行而不流；親䟽有分，則施行而不悖；長幼有序，則事業捷成而有所休。
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- Work
- 荀子 · Xunzi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Xun Kuang; the received collection contains multiple textual layers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR3a0002 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3a0002_010.txt, lines 136–143. XUN 10:3a:1, Beida p.141;Knoblock 2:122
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