Book 10: 《鄉黨》 Xiang Dang (In the Village)
《鄉黨》 Passage 10.19
Legge Translation (1861)
When he was ill and the prince came to visit him, he had his head to the east, made his court robes be spread over him, and drew his girdle across them.Word by word
- 疾 jí
ill, sick
- 君 jūn
ruler, lord
- 視 shì
to visit, call on (someone ill)
extended sense of 視 as 'to visit, look in on' rather than the literal 'to look at'
- 之 zhī
object pronoun: him
- 東首 dōng shǒu
to lie with the head oriented eastward (ritual sickbed posture)
- 東 east, eastward
- 首 head (body part)
a fixed description of the posture a sick person took to receive his ruler
- 加 jiā
to place over, drape (a garment) over oneself
- 朝服 cháo fú
court robes, ceremonial court attire
- 朝 court, the royal court
- 服 clothes, robe, garment
too ill to dress formally, he had his court robes laid over him rather than worn
- 拖 tuō
to let trail, hang loosely (unfastened)
most translators read 拖 as letting the sash hang loose or trail rather than tying it; Slingerland's 'fastened' reads the opposite
- 紳 shēn
ceremonial sash, girdle worn by officials
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