Geomgun劒君
1Geomgun
劒君，仇文大舍之子，為沙梁宮舍人。建福四十四九年丁亥秋八月，隕霜殺諸穀，明年春夏大飢，民賣子而食。於時，宮中諸舍人同謀，盜唱翳倉穀分之，劒君獨不受。諸舍人曰：「衆人皆受，君獨却之，何也？若嫌小，請更加之。」劒君笑曰：「僕編名於近郞之徒，修行於風月之庭，苟非其義，雖千金之利，不動心焉。」時大日伊飡之子，為花郞，號近郞，故云爾。劒君出至近郞之門，舍人等密議不殺此人，必有漏言，遂召之。劒君知其謀殺，辭近郞曰：「今日之後，不復相見。」郞問之，劒君不言，再三問之，乃略言其由。郞曰：「胡不言於有司？」劒君曰：「畏己死，使衆人入罪，情所不忍也。」「然則盍逃乎？」曰：「彼曲我直，而反自逃，非丈夫也。」遂往。諸舍人置酒謝之，密以藥置食，劒君知而强食，乃死。君子曰：「劒君死非其所，可謂輕泰山於鴻毛者也。」
Geomgun was the son of Gumun, who held the rank of daesa, and he became a sain of the Saryang palace.
In the forty-fourth year of Geonbok, a jeonghae year, in the eighth month of autumn, frost fell and killed the grain, and in the spring and the summer of the next year there was a great hunger, and the people sold their children and ate.
At this time the sain of the palace laid a plan together, and they stole the grain of the Changye granary and divided it, and Geomgun alone would not take it.
The other sain said, "All of us have taken it, and you alone push it away. What is this? If you think it too little, we will ask that more be given."
Geomgun laughed and said, "I have set my name among the followers of Geunnang, and I have trained my conduct in the courtyard of wind and moon. If a thing is truly not right, then even a gain of a thousand gold will not move my heart." At that time the son of Daeil, who held the rank of ichan, had become a hwarang and was called Geunnang, and that is why he spoke so.
Geomgun went out and came to the gate of Geunnang. The other sain talked in secret, and said that if this man were not killed word would surely leak out, and so they called him.
Geomgun knew of their plan to kill him, and he took his leave of Geunnang and said, "After today I shall not see you again."
The nang asked him about it, and Geomgun did not speak. He asked him two and three times, and then Geomgun told him the reason in brief.
The nang said, "Why do you not speak of it to the office in charge?"
Geomgun said, "That I should fear my own death and bring many men into guilt is a thing my heart cannot bear."
"Then why do you not run away?"
He said, "They are crooked and I am straight, and to run away myself instead is not the act of a man."
In the end he went. The other sain set out wine and made their apologies, and in secret they put poison in the food. Geomgun knew it and ate it all the same, and so he died.
A gentleman said, "Geomgun died where it was not his place to die. It may be said that he held Taishan lighter than the down of a wild goose."
Interlinear notes 1
建福四十四九年
The source text has 四十四九年; it is taken as an error for 四十四年. ― translator