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28 Han characters · 23 distinct forms · 4 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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不卹君之榮辱，
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偷合苟容、以之持祿養交而已耳，Build a conditional reading ↗偷合苟容、以之持祿養交而已耳，Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗偷合苟容、以之持祿養交而已耳，Read the relationship between clauses ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 3 不 × 2 卹 × 2 國 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 三守第十六持祿養交。國無臣者，豈郎中虛而朝臣少哉？群臣持祿養交，行私道而不效公忠，此謂明劫。
荀子 · 臣道篇第十三君之榮辱利君謂之忠，逆命而不利君謂之篡；不䘏君之榮辱，不䘏國之臧否，偷合苟容、以持祿養交而已耳，謂之國賊。
荀子 · 臣道篇第十三偷合苟容通情，和而無經，不䘏是非，不治曲直，偷合苟容，迷亂狂生，夫是之謂禍亂之從聲，飛廉、惡來是也。
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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_013.txt, lines 310–313. XUN 13:6:2, Beida p.217f; Knoblock 2:202
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