CHAPTER 10 · 18 passages
Within the Southern Seas
海內南經
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The river sentence is compressed and does not explicitly state every connection supplied by ordinary English syntax. 相慮 is preserved as the alternative name without silently assigning it a different modern place.
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是請生, “they seek life,” is a difficult concluding phrase in the judicial description; the translation does not supply an unstated verdict or procedure.
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Chū [貙]: Traditionally a fierce feline, described in early commentary as leopard-like. Its exact modern species is uncertain.
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This is a difficult received passage, particularly “shaped like an ox” and “pulling at it.” Qiū [蓲] is an old tree-name often associated with an elm-like tree; its precise identification here is uncertain. The wording is retained without reconstructing a more familiar tree.
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“These bones” follows the traditional reading of the pronoun in 服之; the original does not repeat its object explicitly.

