Analects 10.15
The Analects (論語), BOOK X. HEANG TANG 鄉黨第十
朋友死、無所歸、曰、於我殯。朋友之饋、雖車馬、非祭肉不拜。
1. When any of his friends died, if he had no relations who could be depended on for the necessary offices, he would say, "I will bury him."
2. When a friend sent him a present, though it might be a carriage and horses, he did not bow.
3. The only present for which he bowed was that of the flesh of sacrifice.
James Legge (1861), Confucian Analects, The Chinese Classics vol. 1 (1861; 2nd ed. 1893) — public domain.
Character glossary
- 朋péngfriend, pal, acquaintance
- 友yǒufriend, companion; fraternity
- 死sǐdead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 無wúno, not; lacking, -less
- 所suǒplace, location; "that which", a particl
- 歸guīto return, to go back; to return to, to
- 曰yuēto speak; to say
- 於yúat, in, on; to, from; alas!
- 我wǒI, me, my; our, us
- 殯bìnfuneral; to enbalm, to inter
- 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of fo
- 饋kuìgift, present
- 雖suīalthough, even though
- 車chēcart, vehicle; to move in a cart
- 馬mǎhorse; surname
- 非fēinot, negative, non-; to oppose
- 祭jìto sacrifice to, to worship
- 肉ròumeat; flesh
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 拜bàito bow, to salute; to worship, to pay re
Passages with shared wording
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