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45 Han characters · 30 distinct forms · 7 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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賢齊則其親者先貴，
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荀子 · 富國篇第十臣下百吏凡主相臣下百吏之屬，其於貨財取與計數也，須孰盡察；其禮義節奏也，芒軔僈楛，是辱國已。
荀子 · 富國篇第十臣下百吏凡主相臣下百吏之屬，其於貨財取與計數也，寬饒𥳑易；其於禮義節奏也，陵謹盡察，是榮國已。
荀子 · 王霸篇第十一臣下百吏若夫論一相以兼率之，使臣下百吏莫不宿道鄉方而務，是夫人主之職也。
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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 773–778. XUN 10:12:6, Beida p.154;Knoblock 2:134
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