Guile and Deceit世説新語 假譎第二十七
1The thief is here
魏武少時，嘗與袁紹好為游俠，觀人新婚，因潛入主人園中，夜叫呼云：「有偷兒賊！」青廬中人皆出觀，魏武乃入，抽刃劫新婦與紹還出，失道，墜枳棘中，紹不能得動，復大叫云：「偷兒在此！」紹遑迫自擲出，遂以俱免。
When Emperor Wu of Wei was young, he once loved to roam as a knight-errant together with Yuan Shao.
Seeing a household hold a wedding, they slipped in secret into the host's garden, and in the night shouted, "There is a thief!"
When everyone inside the blue tent came out to look, Emperor Wu of Wei went in, drew his blade, and carried off the bride by force. He came back out with Yuan Shao, but they lost the road and fell into a thicket of thorns.
When Yuan Shao could not move, he shouted loudly again, "The thief is here!"
Yuan Shao in his panic threw himself out, and so the two of them got away together.
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曹瞞傳曰：「操小字阿瞞，少好譎詐，遊放無度。」孫盛雜語云：「武王少好俠，放蕩不修行業。嘗私入常侍張讓宅中，讓乃手戟於庭，踰垣而出，有絕人力，故莫之能害也。」
The Cao Man zhuan says, "Cao's childhood name was Aman. When young he loved guile and deceit, and he roamed and let himself go without measure." Sun Sheng's Za yu says, "King Wu when young loved the knight-errant's way. He was dissolute and did not cultivate work or calling. He once entered in secret the house of the Regular Attendant Zhang Rang, and when Zhang Rang took up a halberd in the courtyard he climbed over the wall and came out. He had strength beyond other men, and so no one was able to harm him."
2Ahead there is a great plum grove, and the fruit is plentiful and can quench thirst
魏武行役，失汲道，軍皆渴，乃令曰：「前有大梅林，饒子，甘酸，可以解渴。」士卒聞之，口皆出水，乘此得及前源。
Emperor Wu of Wei was on a march when he lost the road to water, and the whole army was thirsty.
So he gave an order. "Ahead there is a great plum grove. The fruit is plentiful, sweet and sour, and it can quench thirst."
When the soldiers heard this, water came into every mouth, and riding on this they were able to reach a spring ahead.
3This man did not know it to his death, and those who plotted rebellion lost their nerve
魏武常言：「人欲危己，己輒心動。」因語所親小人曰：「汝懷刃密來我側，我必說『心動』。執汝使行刑；汝但勿言其使，無他，當厚相報。」執者信焉，不以為懼，遂斬之。此人至死不知也。左右以為實，謀逆者挫氣矣。
Emperor Wu of Wei used to say, "When a man means to endanger me, my heart at once stirs."
So he said to a lowly man close to him, "Come to my side in secret with a blade in your robe, and I will surely say, 'My heart stirs.' I will have you seized and put to death. Only do not say who sent you. Nothing will come of it, and I shall reward you richly."
The man who was seized believed this and was not afraid, and in the end he was beheaded.
This man did not know it to his death, and those around took it for the truth, so that those who plotted rebellion lost their nerve.
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曹瞞傳曰：「操在軍，廩穀不足，私語主者曰：『何如？』主者云：『可以小斛足之。』操曰：『善。』後軍中言操欺眾，操題其主者，背以徇曰：『行小斛，盜軍穀。』遂斬之。仍云：『特當借汝死，以厭眾心。』其變詐皆此類也。」
The Cao Man zhuan says, "When Cao was with the army and the grain in the stores fell short, he said privately to the officer in charge, 'What shall we do?' The officer said, 'You can make it up with a smaller measure.' Cao said, 'Good.' Later it was said in the army that Cao was cheating the men. Cao wrote out the charge against the officer in charge, fastened it on his back, and paraded him about, saying, 'He used a small measure and stole the army's grain.' Then he had him beheaded. And he said, 'I must borrow your death in particular, to satisfy the hearts of the men.' His shifts and deceits were all of this kind."
4From then on, whenever he slept, no one around him dared come near
魏武常云：「我眠中不可妄近，近便斫人，亦不自覺，左右宜深慎此！」後陽眠，所幸一人竊以被覆之，因便斫殺。自爾每眠，左右莫敢近者。
Emperor Wu of Wei used to say, "When I am asleep, do not come near me carelessly. If you come near, I cut men down and am not aware of it myself. Those around me should take deep care in this."
Later he feigned sleep, and a man he favored quietly covered him with a quilt. At this he cut him down and killed him.
From then on, whenever he slept, no one around him dared come near.
5The sword came, and it was indeed high
袁紹年少時，曾遣人夜以劍擲魏武，少下，不著。魏武揆之，其後來必高，因帖臥床上。劍至果高。
When Yuan Shao was young, he once sent a man to hurl a sword at Emperor Wu of Wei in the night. It went a little low and did not strike him.
Emperor Wu of Wei reckoned that the next one would surely come high, so he lay flat against the couch.
The sword came, and it was indeed high.
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按袁、曹後由鼎跱，跡始攜貳。自斯以前，不聞讎隙，有何意故而剚之以劍也？
Let this be considered. It was after the Yuan and the Cao stood against each other like the legs of a cauldron that their paths first parted and their hearts became two. Before this nothing is heard of enmity or a rift between them. With what purpose or cause, then, would he have stabbed at him with a sword?
6Old mother, hide me
王大將軍既為逆，頓軍姑孰。晉明帝以英武之才，猶相猜憚，乃著戎服，騎巴賨馬，齎一金馬鞭，陰察軍形勢。未至十餘里，有一客姥，居店賣食。帝過愒之，謂姥曰：「王敦舉兵圖逆，猜害忠良，朝廷駭懼，社稷是憂。故劬勞晨夕，用相覘察，恐形迹危露，或致狼狽。追迫之日，姥其匿之。」便與客姥馬鞭而去。行敦營匝而出，軍士覺，曰：「此非常人也！」敦臥心動，曰：「此必黃鬚鮮卑奴來！」命騎追之，已覺多許里，追士因問向姥：「不見一黃鬚人騎馬度此邪？」姥曰：「去已久矣，不可復及。」於是騎人息意而反。
Grand General Wang had already risen in revolt, and he halted his army at Gushu.
Emperor Ming of Jin, for all his heroic and martial gifts, still suspected and feared him. So he put on military dress, rode a Bacong horse, carried a single golden riding whip, and went in secret to observe the shape and force of the army.
Before he had come within some ten li, there was an old woman from elsewhere who kept a shop and sold food.
The emperor stopped there to rest as he passed, and said to the old woman, "Wang Dun has raised troops and plots rebellion. He suspects and harms the loyal and the good. The court is startled and afraid, and the altars of the land are in danger. So I toil morning and evening to spy this out and observe it, and I fear my traces may be dangerously exposed and bring me to grief. On the day they come pressing after me, old mother, hide me."
Then he gave the old woman his riding whip and left.
He rode a full circuit of Wang Dun's camp and came out. The soldiers noticed him and said, "This is no ordinary man."
Wang Dun was lying down when his heart stirred, and he said, "This must be that yellow-bearded Xianbei slave, come here."
He ordered horsemen to pursue him, but they found he was already many li away.
The pursuing soldiers then asked the old woman from before, "Have you not seen a yellow-bearded man ride past here?"
The old woman said, "He went by long ago. You cannot catch up with him now."
At this the horsemen gave up the thought and turned back.
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異苑曰：「帝躬往姑孰，敦時晝寢，卓然驚悟曰：『營中有黃頭鮮卑奴來，何不縛取？』帝所生母荀氏，燕國人，故貌類焉。」
The Yi yuan says, "The emperor went to Gushu in person. Wang Dun was sleeping in the daytime and woke with a start, saying, 'A yellow-headed Xianbei slave has come into the camp. Why do you not bind him and take him?' The emperor's own mother, of the Xun family, was a woman of Yan, and so he was like them in looks."
7So he made himself vomit, fouling his head and face and the quilt and the mat, and feigned deep sleep
王右軍年裁十歲時，大將軍甚愛之，恆置帳中眠。大將軍嘗先出，右軍猶未起；須臾，錢鳳入，屏人論事，都忘右軍在帳中，便言逆節之謀。右軍覺，既聞所論，知無活理，乃剔吐汙頭面被褥，詐熟眠。敦論事造半，方意右軍未起，相與大驚曰：「不得不除之！」及開帳，乃見吐唾從橫，信其實熟眠，於是得全。于時稱其有智。
When Wang of the Right Army was barely ten years old, the Grand General was very fond of him and always had him sleep inside his curtains.
The Grand General once went out first while Wang of the Right Army had not yet risen.
A moment later Qian Feng came in, sent the attendants away, and spoke of affairs. He quite forgot that Wang of the Right Army was inside the curtains, and at once spoke of the plot for rebellion.
Wang of the Right Army woke, and having heard what they discussed, he knew there was no way for him to live. So he made himself vomit, fouling his head and face and the quilt and the mat, and feigned deep sleep.
Wang Dun, halfway through their talk, suddenly thought that Wang of the Right Army had not yet risen. The two were greatly alarmed and said, "We cannot but get rid of him."
When they opened the curtains they saw vomit and spittle strewn about, and they believed he was truly deep in sleep. So he came through whole.
At the time men praised him for his wits.
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晉陽秋曰：「鳳字世儀，吳嘉興尉子也。姦慝好利。為敦鎧曹參軍，知敦有不臣心，因進說。後敦敗，見誅。」
The Jinyang qiu says, "Feng's courtesy name was Shiyi, and he was the son of the commandant of Jiaxing in Wu. He was crooked and fond of gain. He became Wang Dun's adjutant of the armor section, and knowing that Wang Dun had a mind not fit for a subject, he went in and urged him on. Later, when Wang Dun fell, he was put to death."
按諸書皆云王允之事，而此言羲之，疑謬。
Let this be considered. The other books all say that this was the affair of Wang Yunzhi, while here it says Wang Xizhi, which seems to be an error.
8Why should Yu Yuangui bow to Tao Shiheng?
陶公自上流來，赴蘇峻之難，令誅庾公。謂必戮庾，可以謝峻。庾欲奔竄，則不可；欲會，恐見執，進退無計。溫公勸庾詣陶，曰：「卿但遙拜，必無它。我為卿保之。」庾從溫言詣陶。至，便拜。陶自起止之，曰：「庾元規何緣拜陶士衡？」畢，又降就下坐。陶又自要起同坐。坐定，庾乃引咎責躬，深相遜謝。陶不覺釋然。
Lord Tao came from upriver to meet the trouble raised by Su Jun, and he ordered that Lord Yu be beheaded.
He held that only by killing Yu Liang could he make amends to Su Jun.
Yu Liang wished to flee and hide, but that could not be done. He wished to meet Tao Kan, but feared he would be seized. Going forward or drawing back, he had no plan.
Lord Wen urged Yu Liang to call on Tao Kan, saying, "Only bow to him from a distance, sir. Surely nothing will come of it. I will answer for it for you."
Yu Liang followed Lord Wen's words and called on Tao Kan. When he arrived, he bowed at once.
Tao Kan rose himself and stopped him, saying, "Why should Yu Yuangui bow to Tao Shiheng?"
When this was done, Yu Liang went down again to take the lower seat, and Tao Kan again himself asked him to rise and sit with him.
When the seating was settled, Yu Liang took the blame upon himself, reproached his own conduct, and made deep and humble apology.
Without knowing it, Tao Kan was put at ease.
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晉陽秋曰：「是時成帝在襁褓，太后臨朝，中書令庾亮以元舅輔政，欲以風軌格政，繩御四海。而峻擁兵近甸，為逋逃藪。亮圖召峻，王導、卞壺並不欲。亮曰：『蘇峻豺狼，終為禍亂，晁錯所謂削亦反，不削亦反。』遂下優詔，以大司農徵之。峻怒曰：『庾亮欲誘殺我也。』遂克京邑。平南溫嶠聞亂，號泣登舟，遣參軍王愆期推征西陶侃為盟主，俱赴京師。時亮敗績奔嶠，人皆尤而少之。嶠愈相崇重，分兵以配給之。」
The Jinyang qiu says, "At this time Emperor Cheng was still in swaddling clothes, the empress dowager attended at court, and Yu Liang, Director of the Secretariat, assisted in government as the emperor's eldest maternal uncle. He wished to set government right by rule and example and to drive the four seas with a rein. But Su Jun held troops near the capital district and had become a marsh for runaways and fugitives. When Yu Liang planned to summon Su Jun, Wang Dao and Bian Kun were both against it. Yu Liang said, 'Su Jun is a jackal and a wolf, and in the end he will make disorder and calamity. He is what Chao Cuo called the man who rebels whether you cut him back or do not cut him back.' So a generous edict was sent down summoning him as Chamberlain for the National Treasury. Su Jun was angry and said, 'Yu Liang means to lure me and kill me.' And so he took the capital. Wen Jiao, General Who Pacifies the South, heard of the disorder, wept aloud, and boarded a boat. He sent his adjutant Wang Qianqi to press Tao Kan, General Who Subdues the West, to be leader of the alliance, and together they marched on the capital. At that time Yu Liang had been defeated and fled to Wen Jiao, and everyone blamed him and thought little of him. Wen Jiao honored and esteemed him all the more, and divided his troops to supply him."
9I did suspect it was the old slave, and it has turned out as I divined
溫公喪婦，從姑劉氏，家值亂離散，唯有一女，甚有姿慧，姑以屬公覓婚。公密有自婚意，答云：「佳壻難得，但如嶠比云何？」姑云：「喪敗之餘，乞粗存活，便足慰吾餘年，何敢希汝比？」卻後少日，公報姑云：「已覓得婚處，門地粗可，壻身名宦，盡不減嶠。」因下玉鏡臺一枚。姑大喜。既婚，交禮，女以手披紗扇，撫掌大笑曰：「我固疑是老奴，果如所卜！」玉鏡臺，是公為劉越石長史，北征劉聰所得。
Lord Wen lost his wife.
His father's cousin, Madam Liu, had lost her household in the disorder and had only one daughter, who had much beauty and wit.
The aunt entrusted the girl to Lord Wen and asked him to look for a match.
Lord Wen secretly had a mind to marry her himself, and answered, "A fine son-in-law is hard to find. What would you say to one who is only the equal of Jiao here?"
The aunt said, "After such ruin and loss I ask no more than to get by alive, and that would be enough to comfort my remaining years. How should I dare hope for your equal?"
A few days later Lord Wen reported to his aunt, "I have found a match. The family and standing will do well enough, and the man himself is not at all below Jiao in name or in office."
With this he sent down a jade mirror stand. The aunt was greatly pleased.
When the wedding came and they exchanged the rites, the daughter pushed aside her gauze fan with her hand, clapped her hands, and laughed aloud. "I did suspect it was the old slave, and it has turned out as I divined."
The jade mirror stand was one Lord Wen had got when he was Chief Clerk to Liu Yueshi and campaigned north against Liu Cong.
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按溫氏譜：「嶠初取高平李暅女，中取琅琊王詡女，後取廬江何邃女。都不聞取劉氏，便為虛謬。」谷口云：「劉氏，政謂其姑爾，非指其女姓劉也。孝標之注，亦未為得。」
Let this be considered. The Wenshi pu says, "Jiao first took to wife a daughter of Li Xuan of Gaoping, next a daughter of Wang Xu of Langye, and later a daughter of He Sui of Lujiang." Nothing at all is heard of his taking a wife of the Liu family, and so this is empty and false. Gukou says, "Liu refers to the aunt herself, and does not mean that the daughter's surname was Liu. Xiaobiao's note has not got it right either."
王隱晉書曰：「建興二年，嶠為劉琨假守左司馬，都督上前鋒諸軍事，討劉聰。」晉陽秋曰：「聰一名載，字玄明，屠各人。父淵，因亂起兵死。聰嗣業。」
Wang Yin's Jin shu says, "In the second year of Jianxing, Jiao acted for Liu Kun as chief clerk on the left and had charge of the affairs of the various armies of the van, and he attacked Liu Cong." The Jinyang qiu says, "Liu Cong had the other name Zai, and his courtesy name was Xuanming. He was a man of Tuge. His father Liu Yuan raised troops in the disorder and died, and Liu Cong carried on his work."
10Call out and wake Master Jiang
諸葛令女，庾氏婦，既寡，誓云：「不復重出！」此女性甚正彊，無有登車理。恢既許江思玄婚，乃移家近之。初，誑女云：「宜徙。」於是家人一時去，獨留女在後。比其覺，已不復得出。江郎莫來，女哭詈彌甚，積日漸歇。江虨暝入宿，恆在對床上。後觀其意轉帖，虨乃詐厭，良久不悟，聲氣轉急。女乃呼婢云：「喚江郎覺！」江於是躍來就之曰：「我自是天下男子，厭，何預卿事而見喚邪？既爾相關，不得不與人語。」女默然而慙，情義遂篤。
The daughter of Director Zhuge, the wife of a man of the Yu family, was widowed, and she swore, "I will not go out again."
This daughter was upright and firm by nature, and there was no way she would mount a carriage.
When Zhuge Hui had already promised her in marriage to Jiang Sixuan, he moved the household nearer to him.
At first he deceived his daughter, saying, "We ought to move."
So the household all went at once, and the daughter alone was left behind.
By the time she understood, she could no longer get out.
When Master Jiang came in the evening, the daughter wept and cursed him all the more, but as the days piled up she gradually stopped.
Jiang Bin would come in at dusk and stay the night, but always on the couch opposite.
Later, seeing that her mind had turned and softened, Jiang Bin feigned a nightmare. For a long while he did not wake, and his voice and breathing grew urgent.
The daughter then called her maid and said, "Call out and wake Master Jiang."
At this Jiang leapt over and came to her, saying, "I am a man of this world in my own right. What has my nightmare to do with you, that you should call out for me? Since you have concerned yourself so, I cannot but speak with you."
The daughter was silent and ashamed, and in the end their love and duty grew deep.
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即庾亮子會妻。父虨，已見上。
She is the wife of Yu Hui, the son of Yu Liang. Her father Jiang Bin has already appeared above.
葛令之清英，江君之茂識，必不背聖人之正典，習蠻夷之穢行。康王之言，所輕多矣。
With Director Zhuge's purity and brilliance, and Master Jiang's abundant understanding, they surely did not turn their backs on the upright canon of the sages and take up the foul practice of the barbarians. Prince Kang's words are often lightly made.
11How can the doctrine of nothingness be set up?
愍度道人始欲過江，與一傖道人為侶，謀曰：「用舊義往江東，恐不辦得食。」便共立「心無義」。既而此道人不成渡，愍度果講義積年。後有傖人來，先道人寄語云：「為我致意愍度，無義那可立？治此計，權救饑爾！無為遂負如來也。」
When the monk Mindu first meant to cross the river, he took a boorish monk for a companion, and they laid a plan. "If we go to the east of the river with the old doctrine, I fear we shall not manage to get food."
So together they set up the doctrine that the mind is nothing.
As it turned out, this monk did not make the crossing, and Mindu did indeed expound the doctrine for years.
Later, when a boor came, the first monk sent word by him. "Convey my thoughts to Mindu for me. How can the doctrine of nothingness be set up? We worked up that plan only to save ourselves from hunger for a while. Do not in the end turn your back on the Tathagata."
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名德沙門題目曰：「支愍度才鑒清出。」孫綽愍度贊曰：「支度彬彬，好是拔新。俱稟昭見，而能越人。世重秀異，咸競爾珍。孤桐嶧陽，浮磬泗濱。」
The Mingde shamen timu says, "Zhi Mindu's talent and discernment were purely outstanding." Sun Chuo's Mindu zan says, "Zhi Mindu shines and shines, and loves to pluck out what is new. He received clear sight as others did, yet he can go beyond other men. The age prizes the rare and the singular, and all vie for his worth. He is the lone paulownia of Mount Yi, the floating chime stone of the banks of the Si."
舊義者曰：「種智有是，而能圓照。然則萬累斯盡，謂之空無；常住不變，謂之妙有。」而無義者曰：「種智之體，豁如太虛，虛而能知，無而能應。居宗至極，其唯無乎？」
Those of the old doctrine say, "In seed wisdom there is being, and so it can shine all round. If so, then the ten thousand entanglements are exhausted, and this is called empty nothingness. It abides always and does not change, and this is called wondrous being." But those of the doctrine of nothingness say, "The body of seed wisdom is open like the great void. Being empty it can know, and being nothing it can respond. What dwells at the ridgepole and reaches the utmost, is it not nothingness alone?"
12Only then did he know Sun Xinggong's deceit
王文度弟阿智，惡乃不翅，當年長而無人與婚。孫興公有一女，亦僻錯，又無嫁娶理。因詣文度，求見阿智。既見，便陽言：「此定可，殊不如人所傳，那得至今未有婚處？我有一女，乃不惡，但吾寒士，不宜與卿計，欲令阿智娶之。」文度欣然而啟藍田云：「興公向來，忽言欲與阿智婚。」藍田驚喜。既成婚，女之頑嚚，欲過阿智。方知興公之詐。
Wang Wendu's younger brother Azhi was more than merely bad, and though he had come of age that year there was no one who would marry him.
Sun Xinggong had a daughter who was likewise warped and wrong, and there was no way to marry her off either.
So he called on Wang Wendu and asked to see Azhi.
When he had seen him, he spoke falsely. "He will certainly do. He is not at all as people report him. How is it that he has no match even now? I have a daughter who is not bad at all, but I am a poor scholar, and it is not fitting for me to reckon myself with you, sir. I should like to have Azhi marry her."
Wang Wendu was delighted and told Lantian, "Xinggong came just now and suddenly said he wished to marry his daughter to Azhi."
Lantian was startled and pleased.
When the marriage was made, the daughter's stubborn stupidity was ready to outdo Azhi's, and only then did he know Sun Xinggong's deceit.
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阿智，王虔之小字。虔之字文將，辟州別駕，不就。娶太原孫綽女，字阿恒。
Azhi is Wang Qianzhi's childhood name. Qianzhi's courtesy name was Wenjiang. He was called to be aide to the Governor of the province but did not take it up. He married the daughter of Sun Chuo of Taiyuan, whose courtesy name was Aheng.
13His eager waiting of a moment before was all gone at once
范玄平為人，好用智數，而有時以多數失會。嘗失官居東陽，桓大司馬在南州，故往投之。桓時方欲招起屈滯，以傾朝廷；且玄平在京，素亦有譽，桓謂遠來投己，喜躍非常。比入至庭，傾身引望，語笑歡甚。顧謂袁虎曰：「范公且可作太常卿。」范裁坐，桓便謝其遠來意。范雖實投桓，而恐以趨時損名，乃曰：「雖懷朝宗，會有亡兒瘞在此，故來省視。」桓悵然失望，向之虛佇，一時都盡。
Fan Xuanping was a man who loved to use his wits and his calculations, but at times his many calculations made him miss the occasion.
He had once lost office and was living in Dongyang, and since Huan the Grand Marshal was in Nanzhou he went to attach himself to him.
Huan Wen at that time was seeking to call up and raise those who were bent down and blocked, so as to tip the balance at court, and Xuanping had also long had a good name while he was in the capital.
Huan Wen took it that he had come from afar to attach himself to him, and his joy was beyond the ordinary.
As Fan Xuanping entered the courtyard, Huan Wen leaned forward and craned to look at him, and talked and laughed with great delight.
He turned to Yuan Hu and said, "Lord Fan might well serve as Chamberlain for Ceremonials."
Fan Xuanping had barely taken his seat when Huan Wen thanked him for his purpose in coming from afar.
Though Fan Xuanping had in truth come to attach himself to Huan Wen, he feared that it would harm his name to be seen currying favor with the times, and so he said, "Though I have cherished the thought of paying court, it happens that a child of mine who died is buried here, and so I came to see the place."
Huan Wen was cast down and disappointed, and his eager waiting of a moment before was all gone at once.
Interlinear notes 1
中興書曰：「初，桓溫請范汪為征西長史，復表為江州，並不就。還都，因求為東陽太守，溫甚恨之。汪後為徐州，溫北伐，令汪出梁國，失期，溫挾憾奏汪為庶人。汪居吳，後至姑孰見溫，溫語其下曰：『玄平乃來見，當以護軍起之。』汪數日辭歸，溫曰：『卿適來，何以便去？』汪曰：『數歲小兒喪，往年經亂，權瘞此境，故來迎之，事竟去耳。』溫愈怒之，竟不屑意。」
The Zhongxing shu says, "At first Huan Wen asked Fan Wang to be Chief Clerk to the General Who Subdues the West, and again memorialized to make him Governor of Jiangzhou, but he took up neither. When he returned to the capital he asked for the post of grand warden of Dongyang, and Huan Wen bore him much resentment for it. Fan Wang later became Governor of Xuzhou, and when Huan Wen campaigned to the north he had Fan Wang march out to Liangguo. Fan Wang missed the appointed time, and Huan Wen, holding his grudge, memorialized to reduce Fan Wang to a commoner. Fan Wang was living in Wu, and later he came to Gushu to see Huan Wen. Huan Wen said to his men, 'Xuanping has come to see me after all, and I shall raise him up as commandant of the guards.' After a few days Fan Wang took his leave to go home, and Huan Wen said, 'You have only just come, sir. Why go so soon?' Fan Wang said, 'A child of a few years died, and as the past year passed in disorder we buried him for a time in this district. So I came to fetch him, and the matter being finished I am going, that is all.' Huan Wen was angrier still with him, and in the end gave him no thought."
14He won it from him by a trick and burned it at once
謝遏年少時，好著紫羅香囊，垂覆手。太傅患之，而不欲傷其意，乃譎與賭，得即燒之。
When Xie E was young, he loved to wear a purple gauze scent bag and to let a covering kerchief hang from it.
The Grand Tutor was troubled by this, but did not wish to hurt his feelings, and so he won it from him by a trick in a wager and burned it at once.
Interlinear notes 1
遏，謝玄小字。
E is Xie Xuan's childhood name.