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陳訓
Chen Xun.
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陳訓，字道元，曆陽人。 少好秘學，天文、算曆、陰陽、占候無不畢綜，尤善風角。 孫晧以為奉禁都尉，使其占侯。 晧政嚴酷，訓知其必敗而不敢言。 時錢唐湖開，或言天下當太平，青蓋入洛陽。 晧以問訓，訓曰：「臣止能望氣，不能達湖之開塞。」 退而告其友曰：「青蓋入洛，將有輿櫬銜璧之事，非吉祥也。」 尋而吳亡。 訓隨例內徙，拜諫義大夫。 俄而去職還鄉。
Chen Xun, whose courtesy name was Daoyuan, came from Liyang. From a young age he was drawn to occult studies, and he commanded the whole range of astronomy, calendar science, yin–yang lore, and omen divination, with particular mastery of wind-angle technique. Sun Hao named him commandant charged with palace prohibitions and set him to reading omens. Sun Hao ruled with pitiless severity; Chen Xun saw the regime was doomed yet held his tongue. When Qiantang Lake burst its bounds, people took it as a sign that peace would return and the emperor's green canopy would soon reach Luoyang. Hao asked Xun about it, and Xun said, "Your servant can only observe qi; I cannot interpret whether a lake opens or closes." When he withdrew he told his friends, "If the green canopy enters Luo, there will be the business of a bier borne forth and jade held in the teeth—this is not auspicious." Soon afterward Wu fell. He was relocated inland like other former Wu officials and appointed remonstrance grandee. He soon resigned and went home.
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及陳敏作亂，遣弟宏為曆陽太守，訓謂邑人曰：「陳家無王氣，不久當滅。」 宏聞，將斬之。 訓鄉人秦琚為宏參軍，乃說訓曰：「訓善風角，可試之。 如不中，徐斬未晚也。」 乃赦之。 時宏攻征東參軍衡彥于曆陽，乃問訓曰：「城中有幾千人？ 攻之可拔不？」 訓登牛渚山望氣，曰：「不過五百人。 然不可攻，攻之必敗。」 宏復大怒曰：「何有五千人攻五百人而有不得理？」 命將士攻之，果為彥所敗，方信訓有道術，乃優遇之。
When Chen Min rebelled, he sent his younger brother Hong as governor of Liyang; Xun said to the people of his district, "The Chen clan has no kingly qi; before long they will be destroyed." Hong, hearing that, meant to put him to death. Xun's fellow townsman Qin Ju, who was Hong's aide, then urged Xun, saying, "Xun is skilled in fengjiao; you may put him to the test. If he is not accurate, it will not be too late to behead him slowly." Hong relented and spared him. At that time Hong was attacking the Eastern Expedition Army staff officer Heng Yan at Liyang, and he asked Xun, "How many thousand men are in the city? Can it be taken if we attack?" Xun climbed Mount Niuzhu to observe the qi and said, "No more than five hundred men. Yet it must not be attacked; if attacked, you will certainly be defeated." Hong again raged, "How can there be a case of five thousand men attacking five hundred and yet it not be reasonable to prevail?" He threw his army at the walls and was crushed by Heng Yan. Only then did Hong concede that Chen Xun possessed true art and began to honor him.
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都水參軍淮南周亢嘗問訓以官位，訓曰：「君至卯年當剖符近郡，酉年當有曲蓋。」 亢曰：「脫如來言，當相薦拔。」 訓曰：「性不好官，惟欲得米耳。」 後亢果為義興太守、金紫將軍。 時劉聰、王彌寇洛陽，曆陽太守武瑕問訓曰：「國家人事如何？」 訓曰：「胡賊三逼，國家當敗，天子野死。 今尚未也。」 其後懷湣二帝果有平陽之酷焉。 或問其以明年吉凶者，訓曰：「揚州刺史當死，武昌大火，上方節將亦當死。」 至時，劉陶、周訪皆卒，武昌大火，燒數千家。 時甘卓為曆陽太守，訓私謂所親曰：「甘侯頭低而視仰，相法名為眄刀，又目有赤脈，自外而入，不出十年，必以兵死，不領兵則可以免。」 卓果為王敦所害。 丞相王導多病，每自憂慮，以問訓。 訓曰：「公耳豎垂肩，必壽，亦大貴，子孫當興于江東。」 咸如其言。 訓年八十餘卒。
Zhou Kang of Huainan, an aide in the Directorate of Waters, once asked Xun about his official career, and Xun said, "In the mao year you will receive tally authority in a nearby commandery; in the you year you will obtain a curved canopy." Kang said, "If it comes true as you say, I will recommend and promote you." Xun said, "By nature I do not love office; I only wish to obtain rice." Kang later became governor of Yixing and golden-purple general, just as foretold. At the time Liu Cong and Wang Mi raided Luoyang; Wu Xia, the governor of Liyang, asked Xun, "How do matters stand for the court and the realm?" Xun said, "The Hu bandits press in thrice; the state will be defeated and the Son of Heaven will die in the open wilds. It has not yet reached that point." The reigns of Emperors Huai and Min ended in the horrors of Pingyang, as he had warned. When someone asked him about good and ill fortune for the next year, Xun said, "The governor of Yang Province will die; there will be a great fire in Wuchang; a senior general of the upper circuit will also die." Liu Tao and Zhou Fang died on schedule; Wuchang burned and thousands of homes were lost. At the time Gan Zhuo was governor of Liyang; Xun privately said to those close to him, "Lord Gan's head hangs low while his gaze tilts upward; in physiognomy this is called 'the sideways-blade glance,' and again there are red threads in his eyes entering from without; within ten years he will surely die by weapons—only if he does not command troops can he escape." Gan Zhuo was indeed killed on Wang Dun's orders. Chancellor Wang Dao, often sick with worry, consulted Chen Xun. Xun said, "Your ears stand straight and reach your shoulders; you are sure to enjoy long life, and you are also greatly noble; your sons and grandsons will rise east of the Yangzi." Every detail proved true. He died in his eighties.
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戴洋
Dai Yang.
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戴洋，字國流，吳興長城人也。 年十二，遇病死，五日而蘇。 說死時天使其為酒藏吏，授符錄，給吏從幡麾，將上蓬萊、昆侖、積石、太室、恆、廬、衡等諸山。 既而遣歸，逢一老父，謂之曰：「汝後當得道，為貴人所識。」 及長，遂善風角。
Dai Yang, courtesy name Guoliu, was from Changcheng in Wuxing commandery. At twelve he fell ill, "died," and returned to life after five days. He described how, in death, heaven appointed him cellar-master for the brews, handed him registers and tallies, gave him a retinue with banners, and led him on a tour of Penglai, Kunlun, Jishi, the central peaks, and the northern and southern Heng and Lu ranges. Then he was sent back, and he met an old man who said to him, "Later you will obtain the Way and will be recognized by noble men." As an adult he excelled at wind-angle divination.
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為人短陋，無風望，然好道術，妙解占侯卜數。 吳末為台吏，知吳將亡，託病不仕。 及吳平，還鄉里。 後行至瀨鄉，經老子祠，皆是洋昔死時所見使處，但不復見昔物耳。 因問守藏應鳳曰：「去二十餘年，嘗有人乘馬東行，過老君而不下馬，未達橋，墜馬死者不？」 鳳言有之。 所問之事，多與洋同。
He was plain, short, and undistinguished in bearing, yet he loved occult arts and had a genius for omens, yarrow, and number-craft. In Wu's last days he served as a terrace clerk; foreseeing the kingdom's fall, he feigned illness and refused appointment. After Wu surrendered he went home. Later, passing through Lai village, he recognized Laozi's shrine as the very post he had held among the shades—only the old scenery was gone. Thereupon he asked the keeper Ying Feng, "More than twenty years ago, was there not someone who rode a horse eastward, passed the Lord Lao without dismounting, and before reaching the bridge fell from his horse and died?" Feng confirmed it. The details matched Dai Yang's own memory.
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揚州刺史嘗問吉凶於洋，答曰：「熒惑入南斗，八月有暴水，九月當有客軍西南來。」 如期果大水，而石冰作亂。 冰既據揚州，洋謂人曰：「視賊雲氣，四月當破。」 果如其言。 時陳敏為右將軍，堂邑令孫混見而羨之。 洋曰：「敏當作賊族滅，何足願也！」 未幾，敏果反而誅焉。 初，混欲迎其家累，洋曰：「此地當敗，得臘不得正，豈可移家於賊中乎！」 混便止。 歲末，敏弟昶攻堂邑，混遂以單身走免。 其後都水馬武舉洋為都水令史，洋請急還鄉。 將赴洛，夢神人謂之曰：「洛中當敗，人盡南渡，後五年揚州必有天子。」 洋信之，遂不去。 既而皆如其夢。
The governor of Yang Province once asked Yang about good and ill fortune; he answered, "Mars has entered the Southern Dipper; in the eighth month there will be violent flooding; in the ninth month a guest army will come from the southwest." The floods came; Shi Bing's revolt followed. After Bing had occupied Yang Province, Yang said to people, "Looking at the rebels' cloud-qi, in the fourth month they will be broken." So it proved. Chen Min was then General of the Right; Sun Hun, magistrate of Tangyi, saw him and burned with envy. Yang said, "Min will become a rebel and his clan will be exterminated—what is there to envy!" Soon Chen Min revolted and paid with his life. At first Hun wished to bring his family dependents; Yang said, "This place is about to fall; one may reach the La festival but not the New Year—how can one move a household into the midst of rebels!" Hun dropped the plan. At year's end Chen Min's brother Chang stormed Tangyi, and Hun escaped alone. Later Ma Wu of the waterways office nominated him clerk; Dai Yang begged leave and went home. About to go to Luo, he dreamed a spirit told him, "Luoyang is about to collapse; everyone will flee south; after five years Yang Province is sure to have a Son of Heaven." He believed the dream and stayed. Events matched the dream.
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廬江太守華譚問洋曰：「天下誰當復作賊者？」 洋曰：「王機。」 尋而機反。 陳眕問洋曰：「人言江南當有貴人，顧彥先、周宣珮當是不？」 洋曰：「顧不及臘，周不見來年八月。」 榮果以十二月十七日卒，十九日臘，珮以明年七月晦亡。 王導遇病，召洋問之。 洋曰：「君侯本命在申，金為土使之主，而于申上石頭立冶，火光照天，此為金火相爍，水火相煎，以故受害耳。」 導即移居東府，病遂差。
Hua Tan, governor of Lujiang, asked Yang, "Who in the realm will next become a rebel?" Yang said, "Wang Ji." Wang Ji soon mutinied. Chen Zhen asked Yang, "People say a noble man will appear south of the Yangzi—would that not be Gu Yanxian and Zhou Xuanpei?" Yang said, "Gu will not last past La; Zhou will not see the eighth month of next year." Gu Rong died on the seventeenth of the twelfth month, two days before Laba; Zhou Pei died on the last day of the seventh month the following year. Wang Dao took sick and called Dai Yang in. Yang said, "Your lordship's natal stem-branch is shen; metal is the ruler dispatched by earth, yet on shen they have raised a smelting furnace at Stone Citadel with fire light shining to heaven—this is metal and fire scorching each other, water and fire tormenting each other; for this reason you suffer harm." Wang Dao moved to the Eastern Quarter and recovered.
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鎮東從事中郎張闓舉洋為丞相令史。 時司馬颺為烏程令，將赴職，洋曰：「君宜深慎下吏。」 揚後果坐吏免官。 洋又謂曰：「卿雖免官，十一月當作郡，加將軍。」 至期，為太山太守、鎮武將軍。 颺賣宅將行，洋止之曰：「君不得至，當還，不可無宅。」 颺果為徐龕所逼，不得之郡。 元帝增颺眾二千，使助祖逖。 洋勸颺不行，颺乃稱疾。 收付廷尉，俄而因赦得出。
Eastern headquarters adjutant Zhang Kai nominated him chancellor's clerk. At the time Sima Yang was magistrate of Wucheng, about to take up his post; Yang said, "You ought to be deeply wary of subordinate clerks." Sima Yang later lost his post through clerkly malfeasance. Yang also said to him, "Although you have lost office, in the eleventh month you will become governor and receive general's rank." He became Taishan governor and Guarding-Might general on schedule. Yang was selling his house about to depart; Yang stopped him, saying, "You will not reach your post but will return—you cannot be without a house." Xu Kan blocked him; he never took up the governorship. Emperor Yuan gave him two thousand extra troops to reinforce Zu Ti. Dai Yang urged refusal; Sima Yang pleaded sick instead. He was jailed at the commandant of justice, then freed by a general amnesty.
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元帝將登阼，使洋擇日，洋以為宜用三月二十四日丙午。 太史令陳卓奏用二十二日，言：「昔越王用甲辰三月反國，范蠡稱在陽之前，當主盡出，上下盡空，德將出遊，刑入中宮，今與此同。」 洋曰：「越王為吳所囚，雖當時遜媚，實懷怨憤，蠡故用甲辰，乘德而歸，留刑吳宮。 今大王內無含咎，外無怨憤，當承天洪命，納祚無窮，何為追越王去國留殃故事邪！」 乃從之。
As Emperor Yuan prepared to take the throne, Dai Yang chose the bing-wu day, the twenty-fourth of the third month. Astrological Director Chen Zhuo memorialized to use the twenty-second day, saying, "In olden times the King of Yue, on jiachen in the third month, returned to his state; Fan Li said that before yang it would 'make the ruler all go out, above and below all empty, virtue about to go wandering, punishment entering the central palace'—now it is the same as that." Yang said, "The King of Yue was imprisoned by Wu; although at the time he was submissive and ingratiating, in truth he harbored resentment and indignation; therefore Fan used jiachen, riding virtue to return and leaving punishment in Wu's palace. Now the great king within has no inward fault, without has no resentment and indignation; he should receive Heaven's great mandate and admit blessing without end—why pursue the former king of Yue's tale of leaving the state and leaving behind calamity!" The court followed Dai Yang's date.
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及祖約代兄鎮譙，請洋為中典軍，遷督護。 永昌元年四月庚辰，禺中時有大風，起自東南，折木。 洋謂約曰：「十月必有賊到譙城東，至曆陽，南方有反者。」 主簿王振以洋為妖，白約收洋，付刺奸而絕其食五十日，言語如故。 約知其有神術，乃赦之而讓振。 振後有罪被收，洋救之。 約曰：「振往日相系，今何以救之？」 洋曰：「振不識風角，非有宿嫌。 振往時垂餓死，洋養活之，振猶尚遺忘。 夫處富貴而不棄貧賤甚難。」 約義之，即原振，賜洋米三十石。 至十月三日，石勒騎果到譙城東。 洋言於約曰：「賊必向城父，可遣騎水南追之，步軍于水北斷要路，賊必敗。」 約竟不追，賊乃掠城父婦女輜重而去。 約將魯延求追賊，洋曰：「不可。」 約不從，使兄子智與延追之。 賊偽棄婦女輜重走，智與延等爭物，賊還掩之，智、延僅以身免，士卒皆死。 約表洋為下邑長。 時梁國人反，逐太守袁晏。 梁城峻險，約欲討之而未決，洋曰：「賊以八月辛酉日反，日辰俱王，辛德在南方，酉受自刑，梁在譙北，乘德伐刑，賊必破亡。 又甲子日東風而雷西行，譙在東南，雷在軍前，為軍驅除。 昔吳伐關羽，天雷在前，周瑜拜賀。 今與往同，故知必克。」 約從之，果平梁城。
When Zu Yue replaced his brother on the Qiao garrison, he took Dai Yang as central-army aide and raised him to protector. In the first year of Yongchang, on geng-chen in the fourth month, at mid-morning, a gale from the southeast snapped trees. Yang said to Yue, "In the tenth month bandits are sure to reach east of Qiao city, as far as Liyang; in the south there will be one who rebels." Chief clerk Wang Zhen called it witchcraft and had him jailed without food fifty days—yet he spoke as clearly as ever. Zu Yue saw his power, freed him, and scolded Wang Zhen. When Zhen later fell foul of the law, Dai Yang interceded. Yue said, "In days past Zhen bound you—why now save him?" Yang said, "Zhen did not understand fengjiao; there was no old grudge. In former times when Zhen was about to starve to death, Yang nourished and kept him alive; Zhen still forgot. For one in wealth and honor not to cast aside the poor and lowly is very difficult." Zu Yue honored the sentiment, spared Zhen, and gave Dai Yang thirty shi of rice. On the third of the tenth month Shi Le's horsemen appeared east of Qiao, exactly as Dai Yang had said. Yang spoke to Yue, saying, "The bandits are sure to head toward Chengfu; you may dispatch cavalry south of the river to pursue them, and infantry north of the river to cut off the vital roads—the bandits will certainly be defeated." Zu Yue refused to move; the raiders looted Chengfu's families and baggage and rode away. Yue's general Lu Yan requested to pursue the bandits; Yang said, "It cannot be done." Zu Yue overruled him, sending his nephew Zhi with Lu Yan in pursuit. The enemy dropped camp followers and wagons as bait; Zhi and Yan fell to squabbling over the spoil; the riders wheeled back and cut them down—only the two leaders lived. Zu Yue had him named magistrate of Lower Yi county. The people of Liang princedom rose and expelled Governor Yuan Yan. Liang city was steep and perilous; Yue wished to chastise them but had not decided; Yang said, "The bandits rebelled on xinyou day in the eighth month; day and hour stem are both wang; xin 's virtue lies in the south, you ' receives self-punishment; Liang lies north of Qiao—riding virtue to attack punishment, the bandits are sure to be destroyed. Moreover on jiazi day the east wind blew while thunder moved westward; Qiao lies southeast; thunder is before the army—it is the army's clearing away. Formerly when Wu attacked Guan Yu, heaven's thunder was in front, and Zhou Yu bowed in congratulation. Now it is the same as in the past; therefore I know we are sure to prevail." Zu Yue attacked and took Liang as predicted.
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太寧三年正月，有大流星東南行，洋曰：「至秋，府當移壽陽。」 及王敦作逆，約問其勝敗，洋曰：「太白在東方，辰星不出。 兵法先起為主，應者為客。 辰星若出，太白為主，辰星為客。 辰星不出，太白為客，先起兵者敗。 今有客無主，有前無後，宜傳檄所部，應詔伐之。」 約乃率眾向合肥。 俄而敦死眾敗，遂住壽陽。 洋又曰：「江淮之間當有軍事，譙城虛曠，宜還固守。 不者，雍丘、沛皆非官有也。」 約不從，豫土遂陷於賊。
In the first month of Taining 3, a great meteor traveled southeastward; Yang said, "By autumn the headquarters will shift to Shouyang." When Wang Dun acted rebelliously, Yue asked about victory and defeat; Yang said, "The Great White is in the east; the Chronograph Star does not appear. In military doctrine he who rises first is host, he who responds is guest. If the Chronograph Star appears, the Great White is host and the Chronograph Star is guest. If the Chronograph Star does not appear, the Great White is guest—he who first raises troops will be defeated. Now there is a guest without a host, there is a front without a rear—you ought to circulate proclamations through your command and, answering the imperial summons, campaign against him." Zu Yue marched on Hefei. Wang Dun soon died and his army collapsed; Zu Yue ended up holding Shouyang. Yang also said, "Between the Yangzi and Huai there will be military affairs; Qiao city is empty and open—you ought to return and defend it firmly. If not, Yongqiu and Pei will both no longer be in official hands." Zu Yue ignored him and lost the Yu region to the enemy.
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咸和元年春，約南行佃，遇大雷雨西南來，洋曰：「甲子西南天雷，其夏必失大將。」 至夏，汝南人反，執約兄子濟，送于石勒。 約府內地忽赤如丹，洋曰：「案《河圖徵》云：『地赤如丹血丸丸，當有下反上者。』 恐十月二十七日胡馬當來飲淮水。」 至時，石勒騎大至，攻城大戰。 其日西風，兵火俱發，約大懼。 會風回，賊退。 時傳言勒遣騎向壽陽，約欲送其家還江東，洋曰：「必無此事。」 尋而傳言果妄。
In the spring of Xianhe 1, Yue went south to farm the fields and met a great thunderstorm coming from the southwest; Yang said, "Jiazi with heaven's thunder in the southwest—this summer a great general is sure to be lost." By summer Runan had risen, seized Zu Yue's nephew Ji, and handed him to Shi Le. Inside Yue's headquarters the ground suddenly became red as cinnabar; Yang said, "According to the Hetu zheng, 'When the earth is red as cinnabar like blood pellets, there will be one below who rebels against those above.' I fear that on the twenty-seventh day of the tenth month Hu horses will come to drink from the Huai River." On that day Shi Le's cavalry swarmed in and stormed the walls. A west wind rose; blades and flames mingled; Zu Yue panicked. Then the gale veered and the besiegers drew off. At the time rumor said Le was sending cavalry toward Shouyang; Yue wished to send his family back east of the Yangzi; Yang said, "There is assuredly no such matter." The rumor soon collapsed.
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咸和初，月暈左角，有赤白珥。 約問洋，洋曰：「角為天門，開布陽道，官門當有大戰。」 俄而蘇峻遣使招約俱反，洋謂約曰：「蘇峻必敗，然其初起，兵鋒不可當，可外和內嚴，以待其變。」 約不從，遂與峻反。 至三年五月，大風雷雨西北來，城內晦螟，洋謂約曰：「雷鳴人上，明使君當遠佞近直，愛下振貧。 昔秦有此變，卒致亂亡。」 約大怒，收洋系之。 遣部將李概將兵到盧江，其眾盡散。 約召洋出，問之曰：「吾還東何如留壽陽？ 若留壽陽，何如入胡？」 洋曰：「東入失半，入胡滅門，留壽陽尚可。」 約欲東向曆陽，其眾不樂東下，皆叛約，劫約姊及嫂奔于石勒。 約到曆陽，祖煥問洋曰：「君昔言平西在壽陽可得五年，果如君言。 今在曆陽，可得幾時？」 洋曰：「得六月耳。」 約問洋：「台下及此氣侯何如？」 洋曰：「此當復有反者。 台下來年三月當太平，江州當大喪。 後南方復有軍事，去此千里。」 尋而牽騰叛約，約率所親將家屬奔于石勒。 二月而天子反正，四月而溫嶠卒，郭默據湓口以叛。 後勒誅約及親屬並盡，皆如洋言。
Early in the Xian-he era a lunar halo ringed the moon's left horn with red and white spikes. Yue asked Yang; Yang said, "The horn is Heaven's Gate; it opens out the yang road—there will be a great battle at the palace gates." Before long Su Jun sent envoys to summon Yue to rebel together; Yang said to Yue, "Su Jun is sure to be defeated, yet at his first rise his army's edge cannot be withstood—you may outwardly conciliate while inwardly tightening guard, awaiting his transformation." Zu Yue refused the counsel and joined Su Jun. When it reached the fifth month of the third year, a great wind and thunderstorm came from the northwest; inside the city it was dark as midnight; Yang said to Yue, "When thunder sounds above men, it means the enlightened lord should distance sycophants and draw near the upright, cherish subordinates and relieve the poor. Formerly Qin had this transformation and in the end encountered chaos and perish." Zu Yue, enraged, had Dai Yang arrested and bound. He dispatched Li Gai toward Lujiang; the column melted away. Yue summoned Yang out and questioned him, saying, "How is it if I return east versus staying at Shouyang? If I stay at Shouyang, how is it compared to entering among the Hu?" Yang said, "Going east you lose half; entering among the Hu exterminates the whole household; staying at Shouyang is still tolerable." Zu Yue tried for Liyang; his men refused the eastern march, mutinied, and carried his sister and sister-in-law off to Shi Le. When Yue reached Liyang, Zu Huan asked Yang, "Formerly you said the Pingxi commander could hold Shouyang for five years, and it indeed matched your words. Now that he is at Liyang, how long can he have?" Yang said, "He obtains six months only." Yue asked Yang, "How are matters below the terraces and the qi signs here?" Yang said, "Here there will again be one who rebels. Below the terraces next year's third month will be at peace; Jiang Province will have a great mourning. Afterward in the south there will again be military affairs a thousand li from here." Qian Teng soon mutinied; Zu Yue fled with kinsmen into Shi Le's camp. The second month saw the emperor restored; the fourth brought Wen Jiao's death and Guo Mo's seizure of Penkou. Shi Le later executed Zu Yue and his entire clan, just as Dai Yang foretold.
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約既敗，洋往尋陽。 時劉胤鎮尋陽，胤問洋曰：「我病當差不？」 洋曰：「不憂使君不差，憂使君今年有大厄。 使君年四十七，行年入庚寅。 《太公陰謀》曰：『六庚為白獸，在上為客星，在下為害氣。』 年與命並，必凶當忌。 十二月二十二日庚寅勿見客。」 胤曰：「我當解職，將君還野中治病。」 洋曰：「使君當作江州，不得解職。」 胤曰：「溫公不復還邪？」 洋曰：「溫公雖還，使君故作江州。」 俄如其言。 九月甲寅申時，回風從東來，入胤兒船中，西過，狀如匹練，長五六丈。 洋曰：「風從咸池下來，攝提下去，咸池為刀兵，大殺為死喪。 到甲子日申時，府內大聚骨理之。 胤問在何處，洋曰：「不出州府門也。」 胤架府東門。 洋又曰：「東為天牢，牢下開門，憂天獄至。」 十二月十七日，洋又曰：「臘近可閉門，以五十人備守，並以百人備東北寅上，以卻害氣。」 胤不從。 二十四日壬辰，胤遂為郭默所害。
When Zu Yue fell, Dai Yang went to Xunyang. At the time Liu Yin garrisoned Xunyang; Yin asked Yang, "Will my illness get better?" Yang said, "I do not worry that the lord will not recover; I worry that the lord has a great calamity this year. The lord is forty-seven years of age; his annual cycle enters gengyin. The Taigong yinmou says, 'The six geng are the White Beast; above they are the guest star, below they are the baleful qi.' When the year and fate coincide, it is surely inauspicious and must be guarded against. On the twenty-second day of the twelfth month, gengyin, do not receive guests." Yin said, "I shall resign my post and take you back to the wilds to treat the illness." Yang said, "The lord will hold Jiang Province; you cannot resign the post." Yin said, "Will Lord Wen not return?" Yang said, "Although Lord Wen returns, the lord will still hold Jiang Province." It unfolded exactly so. On jia-yin of the ninth month at mid-afternoon a whirlwind from the east struck Liu Yin's son's boat, then swept west in a band five or six zhang like white silk. Yang said, "The wind came down from the Xianchi pool, the Sheti handle going down; Xianchi is blades and weapons, the great killing is death and mourning. When it reaches jiazi day at the shen double-hour, inside the headquarters they will greatly gather bones and bury them. Yin asked where; Yang said, "It will not go outside the province headquarters gate." Yin erected the eastern gate of the headquarters. Yang also said, "East is Heaven's Prison; below the prison the gate opens—worry that Heaven's Jail arrives." On the seventeenth day of the twelfth month Yang again said, "La is near; you can close the gates, prepare fifty men on guard, and also station a hundred men northeast on the yin position above, to repel the baleful qi." Yin did not follow this. On renchen the twenty-fourth day, Yin was then killed by Guo Mo.
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南中郎將桓宣以洋為參軍，將隨宣往襄陽，太尉陶侃留之住武昌。 時侃謀北伐，洋曰：「前年十一月熒惑守胃昴，至今年四月，積五百餘日。 昴，趙之分野，石勒遂死。 熒惑以七月退，從畢右順行入黃道，未及天關，以八月二十二日復逆行還鉤，繞畢向昴。 昴畢為邊兵，主胡夷，故置天弓以射之。 熒惑逆行，司無德之國，石勒死是也。 勒之餘燼，以自殘害。 今年官與太歲、太陰三合癸巳，癸為北方，北方當受災。 歲鎮二星共合翼軫，從子及巳，徘徊六年。 荊楚之分，歲鎮所守，其下國昌，豈非功德之徵也！ 今年六月，鎮星前角亢。 角亢，鄭之分。 歲星移入房，太白在心。 心房，宋分。 順之者昌，逆之者亡。 石季龍若興兵東南，此其死會也。 官若應天伐刑，徑據宋鄭，則無敵矣。 若天與不取，反受其咎。」 侃志在中原，聞而大喜。 會病篤，不果行。
Huan Xuan, South Center general, took Dai Yang as aide for a march to Xiangyang, but Tao Kan kept him in Wuchang. At the time Kan planned a northern expedition; Yang said, "In the eleventh month of the year before last Mars guarded Mao and the Pleiades; until this year's fourth month it accumulated more than five hundred days. Mao is the field division of Zhao; Shi Le thereupon died. Mars in the seventh month retired, from Bi's right proceeding smoothly into the Yellow Road; before reaching the Celestial Pass, on the twenty-second day of the eighth month it again retrograded back to the Hook, circling Bi toward the Pleiades. The Pleiades and Bi are frontier troops, governing the Hu and Yi; therefore Heaven sets the Bow to shoot them. Mars retrograding punishes states without virtue—Shi Le's death is a case of this. The remaining embers of Le thereby harm themselves. This year the official star joins Grand Year and Grand Yin in a triple conjunction at guisi; gui is the north; the north is sure to suffer disaster. The Year and Garrison stars together join Yi and Zhen, from zi to si, lingering six years. In the division of Jing and Chu, what Year and Garrison guard—below them the state flourishes—is this not a sign of merit and virtue! In the sixth month of this year the Garrison Star moved ahead of Horn and Neck. Horn and Neck are Zheng's division. The Year Star moved into Chamber; the Great White was in Heart. Heart and Chamber are Song's division. Those who accord with it flourish; those who oppose it perish. If Shi Jilong raises troops toward the southeast, this will be the assembly of his death. If the lord, answering Heaven, punishes the punished, and goes straight to occupy Song and Zheng, then there will be none to match you. If Heaven grants and you do not take, you will on the contrary receive its blame." Tao Kan's heart was set on the north; the reading delighted him. He fell mortally ill and never marched.
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侃薨，征西將軍庾亮代鎮武昌，復引洋問氣侯。 洋曰：「天有白氣，喪必東行，不過數年必應。」 尋有大鹿向西城門，洋曰：「野獸向城，主人將去。」 城東家夜半望見城內有數炬火，從城上出，如大車狀，白布幔覆，與火俱出城東北行，至江乃滅。 洋聞而歎曰：「此與前白氣同。」 時亮欲西鎮石城，或問洋：「此西足當欲東不？」 洋曰：「不當也。」， 咸康三年，洋言於亮曰：「武昌土地有山無林，政可圖始，不可居終。 山作八字，數不及九。 昔吳用壬寅來上； 創立宮城，至己酉，還下秣陵。 陶公亦涉八年。 土地盛衰有數，人心去就有期，不可移也。 公宜更擇吉處，武昌不可久住。」 五年，亮令毛寶屯邾城。 九月，洋言於亮曰：「毛豫州今年受死問。 昨朝大霧晏風，當有怨賊報仇，攻圍諸侯，誠宜遠偵邏。」 寶問當在何時，答曰：「五十日內。」 其夕，又曰：「九月建戌，硃雀飛驚，征軍還歸，乘戴火光，天示有信，災發東房，葉落歸本，慮有後患。」 明日，又曰：「昨夜火殃，非國福，今年架屋，致使君病，可因燒屋，移家南渡，無嫌也。」 寶即遣兒婦還武昌。 尋傳賊當來攻城，洋曰：「十月丁亥夜半時得賊問，幹為君，支為臣，丁為征西府，亥為邾城，功曹為賊神，加子時十月水王木相，王相氣合，賊必來。 寅數七，子數九，賊高可九千人，下可七千人。 從魁為貴人加丁，下克上，有空亡之事，不敢進武昌也。」 賊果陷邾城而去。 亮問洋曰：「故當不失石城否？」 洋曰：「賊從安陸向石城，逆太白，當伐身，無所慮。」 亮曰：「天何以利胡而病我？」 洋曰：「天符有吉凶，土地有盛衰，今年害氣三合己亥，己為天下，亥為戎胡，季龍亦當受死。 今乃不憂賊，但憂公病耳。」 亮曰：「何方救我疾？」 洋曰：「荊州受兵，江州受災，公可去此二州。」 亮曰：「如此，當有解不」？」 洋曰：「恨晚，猶差不也。」 亮竟不能解二州，遂至大困。 洋曰：「昔蘇峻時，公于白石祠中祈福，許賽其牛，至今未解，故為此鬼所考。」 亮曰：「有之，君是神人也。」 或問洋曰：「庾公可得幾時？」 洋曰：「見明年。」 時亮已不識人，咸以為妄，果至正月一日而薨。
After Tao Kan died, Yu Liang took the western command at Wuchang and again consulted Dai Yang on omens. Yang said, "Heaven has white qi; mourning is sure to travel eastward; within no more than a few years it is sure to correspond." Before long a great deer went toward the west city gate; Yang said, "When wild beasts face the city, the master will depart." East-side households saw at midnight bundles of flame slide from the battlements like covered wagons, wrapped in white sheets, rolling northeast out of town until they vanished in the river. When Yang heard this he sighed and said, "This is the same as the white qi of before." At the time Liang wished to garrison Shicheng to the west; someone asked Yang, "Is this 'west' enough, or does it intend to go east?" Yang said, "It is not appropriate." In Xiankang 3, Yang spoke to Liang, saying, "The land of Wuchang has mountains but no forests—it may be planned for a beginning, but cannot be dwelt in to the end. The mountains form the character 'eight'; the reckoning does not reach nine. Formerly Wu used renyin to come up to the capital; they founded the palace city, and by jiyou they returned down to Moling. Lord Tao likewise crossed eight years. The flourishing and decline of land has a number; the people's hearts' going and staying have a term—it cannot be shifted. You ought to choose another auspicious place; Wuchang cannot be long dwelt in." In the fifth year Yu Liang stationed Mao Bao at Zhu fortress. In the ninth month Yang spoke to Liang, saying, "Prefect Mao of Yu Province this year receives the inquiry of death. Yesterday morning there was great fog and a late wind; there ought to be resentful bandits taking revenge, besieging lords—you truly ought to send scouts far out." Bao asked when it would be; he answered, "Within fifty days." That evening he again said, "The ninth month establishes xu; the Vermilion Bird flies in alarm; the expeditionary army returns home, riding on bearing fire light—Heaven shows trust; disaster issues from the eastern chamber; leaves fall and return to the root—I fear there will be later trouble." The next day he again said, "Last night's fire calamity is not the state's blessing; this year you built houses and caused the lord to fall ill—you may burn the houses, move the household south across the river—there is nothing to blame." Mao Bao immediately sent his daughter-in-law back to Wuchang. Before long rumor said bandits would come to attack the city; Yang said, "On dinghai of the tenth month, in the middle of the night, we obtain the bandits' inquiry: qian is lord, zhi is minister; ding is the Western Expedition headquarters, hai is Zhucheng; the merit clerk is the bandits' spirit; adding the zi double-hour, in the tenth month water is king and wood is minister; king and minister qi combine—the bandits are sure to come. Yin's number is seven, zi's number is nine; the bandits at most can be nine thousand men, at least seven thousand. Congkui is the noble man added to ding; below overcomes above; there is the matter of emptiness and void—they dare not advance on Wuchang." The enemy stormed Zhu fort and withdrew, as he said. Liang asked Yang, "So in the end we will not lose Shicheng, will we?" Yang said, "The bandits go from Anlu toward Shicheng, contrary to the Great White—they will harm themselves; there is nothing to worry about." Liang said, "Why does Heaven favor the Hu and afflict us?" Yang said, "Heaven's tallies have auspiciousness and inauspiciousness; land has flourishing and decline; this year the baleful qi triple-conjoins at jihai—ji is All-under-Heaven, hai is the Rong and Hu; Jilong likewise ought to receive death. Now you need not worry about the bandits, but only worry about the lord's illness." Liang said, "From what direction may my illness be saved?" Yang said, "Jing Province receives weapons; Jiang Province receives disaster—you may leave these two provinces." Liang said, "If it is thus, will there still be relief?" Yang said, "It is regrettably late, yet perhaps not entirely without improvement." Yu Liang could not abandon either province and fell into mortal crisis. Yang said, "Formerly at the time of Su Jun, you prayed for blessing in the shrine at White Rock, vowing to repay it with an ox, and to this day you have not released the vow; therefore this ghost torments you." Liang said, "There is such a thing—you are a spiritlike man." Someone asked Yang, "How long can Lord Yu obtain?" Yang said, "He will be seen until next year." By then Yu Liang no longer knew faces; they mocked the prophecy—yet he died on New Year's Day.
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庾翼代亮，洋復為占侯。 少時卒，年八十餘。 所占驗者不可勝紀。
Yu Yi replaced his brother and again retained Dai Yang for omens. Dai Yang died soon after, aged over eighty. His verified predictions are too many to count.
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韓友
Han You.
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韓友，字景先，廬江舒人也。 為書生，受《易》于會稽伍振，善占卜，能圖宅相塚，亦行京費厭勝之術。 龍舒長鄧林婦病積年，垂死，醫巫皆息意。 友為筮之，使畫作野豬著臥處屏風上，一宿覺佳，於是遂差。 舒縣廷掾王睦病死，已復魄。 友為筮之，令以丹畫版作日月置床頭，又以豹皮馬鄣泥臥上，立愈。 劉世則女病魅積年，巫為攻禱，伐空塚故城間，得狸鼉數十，病猶不差。 友筮之，命作布囊，依女發時，張囊著窗牖間，友閉戶作氣，若有所驅。 斯須之間，見囊大脹如吹，因決敗之，女仍大發。 友乃更作皮囊二枚，遝張之，施張如前，囊復脹滿。 因急縛囊口，懸著樹二十許日，漸消，開視有二斤狐毛，女遂差。
Han You, courtesy name Jingxian, came from Shu county in Lujiang. He studied the Book of Changes under Wu Zhen of Kuaiji, excelled at milfoil divination, geomancy for houses and graves, and the apotropaic methods of the Jing and Fei schools. The wife of Longshu magistrate Deng Lin had lain near death for years while doctors and exorcists gave up. Han You divined for her, told her to paint a boar on her bedside screen, and after one comfortable night she mended. Wang Mu, a Shu county clerk, died of sickness and came back to life. Han You had him paint red sun and moon on a board at his pillow and drape a mud-splashed leopard-hide horse blind over the couch—he healed at once. Liu Shize's daughter endured a fox-spirit for years; shamans raided old tombs and dragged out dozens of otters and soft-shelled turtles, yet she stayed ill. Han You cast yarrow, sewed a cloth sack, and when her seizure began hung it in the window while he shut the door and drove spirits with breath control. The sack swelled as if inflated; he slit it and the girl convulsed worse. He made two leather bags, hung them as before, and they ballooned again. He lashed the mouths shut and hung them on a tree twenty days until they deflated; inside were two jin of fox fur, and the girl recovered.
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宣城邊洪以四月中就友卜家中安否，友曰：「卿家有兵殃，其禍甚重。 可伐七十束柴，積於庚地，至七月丁酉放火燒之，咎可消也。 不爾，其凶難言。」 洪即聚柴。 至日，大風，不敢發火。 洪後為廣陽領校，遭母喪歸家，友來投之，時日已暮，出告從者，速裝束，吾當夜去。 從者曰：「今日已暝，數十里草行，何急復去？」 友曰：「非汝所知也。 此間血覆地，寧可復住！」 苦留之，不待食而去。 其夜洪欻發狂，絞殺兩子，並殺婦，又斫父妾二人，皆被創，因出亡走。 明日，其宗族往收殯亡者，尋索洪，數日，于宅前林中得之，已自經死。
Bian Hong of Xuancheng in the fourth month went to You to divine whether his household was secure; You said, "Your household has a military calamity; the disaster is very heavy. You may cut seventy bundles of firewood, pile them on the geng ground, and on dingyou of the seventh month set fire and burn them—the blame can be dispelled. If not, its inauspiciousness is hard to describe." Bian Hong collected the wood. On the appointed day a gale rose and he feared to light it. Later Bian Hong served as Guangyang chief inspector. Mourning his mother, he returned home; Han You visited at dusk, then burst out to servants to pack—he must leave that night. The followers said, "Today is already dark; several tens of li through the grass—why urgently leave again?" You said, "This is not what you can understand. Here blood will cover the ground—how can one stay again!" They pressed him to dine; he refused and rode off. That night Bian Hong went mad, throttled two sons, slew his wife, hacked his father's two concubines, and bolted wounded from the house. Next day kinsmen buried the dead and searched until they found him hanged in the grove before his gate.
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宣城太守殷祐有病，友筮之，曰：「七月晦日，將有大鸜鳥來集廳事上，宜勤伺取，若獲者為善，不獲將成禍。」 祐乃謹為其備。 至日，果有大鸜垂尾九尺，來集廳事上，掩捕得之，祐乃遷石頭督護，後為吳郡太守。
Yin You, governor of Xuancheng, was ill; You divined for him and said, "On the last day of the seventh month a great mynah bird will come and alight on the hall affairs; you ought diligently to watch and capture it—if you obtain it that is good; if you do not obtain it, a calamity will form." Yin You prepared meticulously. The bird appeared with a nine-chi tail; they netted it, Yin You was promoted Stone Citadel protector, then Wu commandery governor.
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友卜占神效甚多，而消殃轉禍，無不皆驗。 于寶問其故，友曰：「筮封用五行相生殺，如案方投藥治病，以冷熱相救。 其差與不差，不可必也。」 友以元康六年舉賢良，元帝渡江，以為廣武將軍，永嘉末卒。
Han You's readings were uncannily accurate, and every apotropaic rite he prescribed worked. Gan Bao asked him the reason; You said, "Milfoil hexagrams use the five phases' mutual production and killing; it is like according to formula casting medicine to treat illness, using cold and heat to rescue each other. Whether it recovers or does not recover cannot be certain." Recommended as worthy and excellent in Yuankang 6, Han You became General Who Extends Might after Emperor Yuan crossed the river and died at Yongjia's end.
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淳于智，字叔平，濟北盧人也。 有思義，能《易》筮，善厭勝之術。 高平劉柔夜臥，鼠齧其左手中指，以問智。 智曰：「是欲殺君而不能，當為君使其反死。」 乃以硃書手腕橫文後三寸作田字，辟方一寸二分，使露手以臥。 明旦，有大鼠伏死手前。 譙人夏侯藻母病困，詣智卜，忽有一狐當門向之嗥。 藻怖愕，馳見智。 智曰：「其禍甚急，君速歸，在狐嗥處拊心啼哭，令家人驚怪，大小必出，一人不出，哭勿止，然後其禍可救也。」 藻還，如其言，母亦扶病而出。 家人既集，堂屋五間拉然而崩。 護軍張劭母病篤，智筮之，使西出市沐猴，系母臂，令傍人捶拍，恆使作聲，三日放去。 劭從之。 其猴出門即為犬所咋死，母病遂差。 上党鮑瑗家多喪病貧苦，或謂之曰：「淳于叔平神人也，君何不試就卜，知禍所在？」 瑗性質直，不信卜筮，曰：「人生有命，豈卜筮所移！」 會智來，應詹謂曰：「此君寒士，每多屯虞，君有通靈之思，可為一卦。」 智乃為卦，卦成，謂瑗曰：「君安宅失宜，故令君困。 君舍東北有大桑樹，君徑至市，入門數十步，當有一人持荊馬鞭者，便就買以懸此樹，三年當暴得財。」 瑗承言詣市，果得馬鞭，懸之三年，浚井，得錢數十萬，銅鐵器復二十餘萬，於是致贍，疾者亦愈。 其消災轉禍，不可勝紀，而卜筮所占，千百皆中。 應詹少亦多病，智乃為符使詹佩之，誦其文，既而皆驗，莫能學也。
Chunyu Zhi, courtesy name Shuping, was a man of Lu in Jibei. He was dutiful and thoughtful, divined from the Changes, and mastered apotropaic rites. Gaoping's Liu Rou woke to a rat chewing his left middle finger and consulted Chunyu Zhi. Zhi said, "It wishes to kill you but cannot; I shall for you make it instead die." He drew a cinnabar "field" character on the transverse crease three cun above the wrist, each side one cun two fen, and had Liu sleep with the mark bare. At dawn a huge rat lay dead before the marked hand. Qiao man Xia Zao sought Chunyu Zhi for his dying mother; a fox stood howling at the gate. Terror-struck, Xia Zao raced to Chunyu Zhi. Zhi said, "The calamity is very urgent; you should quickly return, at the place of the fox's howl beat your breast and weep aloud, causing the household to be startled and strange, and great and small must all come out—if one person does not come out, do not stop weeping; afterward the calamity can be saved." Xia Zao obeyed; even his sick mother let herself be helped outside. When the family had gathered, their five-bay hall crashed flat. Protector Zhang Shao's mother lay dying. Chunyu Zhi sent him west to market for a macaque, bound it on her arm, had attendants pat it until it shrieked three days, then released it. Zhang Shao obeyed. The monkey was killed by a dog at the door; the mother recovered. Bao Yuan of Shangdang had many deaths and illness in the family and was poor and bitter; someone said to him, "Chunyu Shuping is a spiritlike man—why do you not try going to him for divination, to know where the calamity lies?" Yuan's nature was honest and straightforward; he did not believe in milfoil divination, saying, "Human life has fate—how can milfoil divination shift it!" Just then Zhi came; Ying Zhan said to him, "This gentleman is a poor scholar, always having many setbacks; you have thoughts that penetrate the spirits—please cast one hexagram." Zhi thereupon cast a hexagram; when the hexagram was complete, he said to Yuan, "Your peaceful dwelling is out of accord; therefore it causes you to be distressed. Northeast of your house there is a great mulberry tree; you should go straight to the market, enter the gate several tens of paces, and there ought to be a person holding a thorn horsewhip—then go buy it and hang it on this tree; in three years you will suddenly obtain wealth." He found the whip, hung it three years, cleaned his well, and pulled up hundreds of thousands in coin plus two hundred thousand more in bronze and iron, ending want and curing the household. His turnings of ill luck are legion, and his yarrow casts hit time after time. Ying Zhan had been sickly as a boy; Chunyu Zhi gave him a talisman to wear and chant—every omen proved true, yet no one could copy the craft.
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性深沈，常自言短命，曰：「辛亥歲天下有事，當有巫醫挾道術者死。 吾守《易》義以行之，猶當不應此乎！」 太康末，為司馬督，有寵于楊駿，故見殺。
His nature was deep and still; he often said of himself that his life would be short, saying, "In the xinhai year there will be affairs in All-under-Heaven; there must be shamans and physicians who grasp Dao arts who will die. I guard the meaning of the Changes to practice it—should I still not correspond to this!" Late in Taikang he served as palace Sima inspector, favored by Yang Jun, and died in the purge.
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步熊
Bu Xiong.
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步熊，字叔羆，陽平發幹人也。 少好卜筮數術，門徒甚盛。 熊學舍側有一人燒死，吏持熊諸生，謂為失火。 熊曰：「已為卿卜得其人矣。 使從道南行，當有一人來問得火主未者，便縛之。」 吏如熊言，果是耕人，自言草惡難耕，故燒之，忽風起延燒遠近，實不知草中有人。 又鄰人兒遠行，或告已死，其父母號哭制服，熊為之卜，克日當還，如期果至。 趙王倫聞其名，召之。 熊謂諸生曰：「倫死不久，不足應也。」 倫怒，遣兵圍之數重。 熊乃使諸生著其裘南走，倫兵悉赴捉之，熊密從北出，得脫。 後為成都王穎所辟，穎使熊射覆，物無所失。 後穎奔關中，平昌公模鎮鄴，以熊穎黨，誅之。
Bu Xiong, courtesy name Shupi, came from Fagan in Yangping. He loved yarrow and number-craft and drew a crowd of disciples. When a neighbor burned to death beside his school, clerks arrested Bu Xiong's pupils for careless fire. Xiong said, "I have already divined for you and obtained that person. Send someone south along the road; there ought to be a person who comes asking whether the fire master has been found—then bind him." The officer obeyed: a plowman admitted he had torched tough stubble without knowing a sleeper lay in the weeds; a gust had spread the blaze. When a neighbor's son was rumored dead abroad, Bu Xiong set a return date; the youth walked in on that very day. Prince Sima Lun of Zhao summoned him. Xiong said to his students, "Lun will not die long from now—it is not worth responding." Sima Lun ringed the school with soldiers. He dressed pupils in his own pelts to draw the chase south while he slipped out north. Prince Chengdu Sima Ying employed him; in the "cover the jar" divination game he never missed. When Sima Ying fled to Guanzhong, Prince Pingchang Sima Mo held Ye and executed Bu Xiong as his partisan.
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杜不愆
Du Buqian.
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杜不愆，廬江人也。 少就外祖郭璞學《易》卜。 屢有驗。 高平郗超年二十餘，得重疾，試令筮之。 不愆曰：「案卦言之，卿所苦尋除。 然宜於東北三十里上宮姓家索其所養雄雉，籠盛置東簷下，卻後九日丙午日午時，必當有雌雉飛來與交，既而雙去。 若如此，不出二十日病都除，又是休應，年將八十，位極人臣。 若但雌逝雄留者，病一周方差，年半八十，名位亦失。」 超時正羸篤，慮命在旦夕，笑而答曰：「若保八十之半，便有餘矣。 一周病差，何足為淹！」 然未之信。 或勸依其言，索雉果得。 至丙午日，超臥南軒之下觀之，至日晏，果有雌雉飛入籠，與雄雉交而去，雄雉不動。 超歎曰：「雖管郭之奇，何以尚此！」 超病彌年乃起，至四十，卒于中書郎。 不愆後占筮轉疏，無復此類。 後為桓嗣建威參軍。
Du Buqian came from Lujiang. As a boy he learned the Book of Changes and milfoil from his grandfather Guo Pu. His readings repeatedly proved true. Xi Chao of Gaoping, barely twenty, fell dangerously ill; his household had Du Buqian cast yarrow. Buqian said, "According to what the hexagram says, what you suffer from will soon be removed. Yet you should at thirty li to the northeast seek the caged cock raised by a family surnamed Shang on the heights, put it in a cage and place it under the eastern eaves; after nine days on bingwu day at the wu double-hour, a hen is sure to fly in and mate with it; afterward both will leave together. If it is thus, within twenty days the illness will entirely be removed, and moreover it is a rest hexagram's response—you will reach nearly eighty years of age and rank as extreme as any minister of men. If only the hen departs and the cock remains, the illness will improve after one week, the years half of eighty, and fame and position will likewise be lost." At the time Chao was just emaciated and critical, worried that his life was at dawn or dusk; smiling he answered, "If it preserves half of eighty, there is surplus. Illness improving after one week—what is sufficient to call delay!" He still doubted. Friends pressed him to obey; he found the rooster. At noon on bing-wu he watched from the south loggia: a hen flew into the cage, mounted the rooster, and flew off while the cock stayed. Chao sighed, saying, "Even the marvels of Guan and Guo—how could they surpass this!" Yet he lingered a year before rising, died at forty as a Secretariat gentleman. Later Du Buqian's art grew rougher; nothing again matched that feat. He ended aide to Huan Si, Establishing Might general.
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嚴卿
Yan Qing.
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嚴卿，會稽人也。 善卜筮。 鄉人魏序欲暫東行，荒年多抄盜，令卿筮之。 卿筮曰：「君慎不可東行，必遭暴害之氣，而非劫也。」 序不之信。 卿曰：「既必不停，宜以禳之，可索西郭外獨母家白雄狗系著船前。」 求索止得駁狗，無白者。 卿曰：「駁者亦足，然猶恨其色不純，當餘小毒，正及六畜輩耳，無所復憂。」 序行半路，狗忽然作聲甚急，有如人打之者。 比視，已死，吐黑血鬥餘。 其夕，序墅上白鵝數頭無故自死，而序家無恙。
Yan Qing came from Kuaiji. He excelled at yarrow divination. Fellow villager Wei Xu planned an eastern journey in famine years rife with bandits and asked Yan Qing to read the omens. Qing divined and said, "You must be careful not to travel east; you are sure to encounter the qi of sudden violence, yet it will not be robbery." Wei Xu scoffed. Qing said, "Since you certainly will not stop, you ought to exorcise it: you may seek a white male dog from the lone mother west of the outer wall and tie it at the prow of the boat." He could only find a spotted dog, none pure white. Qing said, "Piebald is also sufficient, yet I still regret that its color is not pure; there will remain a small poison, reaching only to the six domestic animals and the like; there is nothing further to worry about." Mid-voyage the dog yelped as if flogged. It lay dead, heaving a dou of black blood. That night his white geese dropped dead, yet the family stayed untouched.
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隗炤
Wei Zhao.
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隗炤，汝陰人也。 善於《易》。 臨終，書版授其妻曰：「吾亡後當大荒窮，雖爾慎莫賣宅也。 卻後五年春，當有詔使來頓此亭，姓龔，此人負吾金，即以此版往責之，勿違言也。」 炤亡後，其家大困乏，欲賣宅，憶夫言輒止。 期日，有龔使者止亭中，妻遂齎版往責之。 使者執版惘然，不知所以。 妻曰：「夫臨亡，手書版見命如此，不敢妄也。」 使者沈吟良久而悟，謂曰：「賢夫何善？」 妻曰：「夫善於《易》，而未會為人卜也。」 使者曰：「噫，可知矣！」 乃命取蓍筮之，卦成，撫掌而歎曰：「妙哉隗生！ 含明隱跡，可謂鏡窮達而洞吉凶者也。」 於是告炤妻曰：「吾不相負金也，賢夫自有金耳，知亡後當暫窮，故藏金以待太平，所以不告兒婦者，恐金盡而困無已也。 知吾善《易》，故書版以寄意耳。 金有五百斤，盛以青甕，覆以銅柈，埋在堂屋東頭，去壁一丈，入地九尺。」 妻還掘之，皆如卜焉。
Wei Zhao came from Ruyin. He mastered the Book of Changes. Facing death, he wrote on a board and handed it to his wife, saying, "After my death there will be great famine and poverty; although it is so, be careful not to sell the house. After five years in spring, there will be an imperial envoy who stops at this post station, surnamed Gong; this person owes me gold—then take this board to go demand repayment of him; do not disobey my words." Poverty pressed them to sell, but his warning checked them each time. On schedule Envoy Gong arrived; she brought the tally to claim the debt. Gong stared at the board, baffled. The wife said, "When my husband faced death, he personally wrote on the board and showed the command thus; I dare not be reckless." The envoy pondered a long time and understood, saying to her, "In what was your worthy husband skilled?" The wife said, "My husband was good at the Changes, yet never once divined for people." The envoy said, "Ah, it can be known!" He thereupon ordered them to bring milfoil and divine; when the hexagram was complete, he clapped his palm and sighed, saying, "Wonderful, Master Wei! Holding brightness yet hiding his traces—he may be called one who mirrors poverty and success and thoroughly perceives auspiciousness and inauspiciousness." Thereupon he told Zhao's wife, "I do not owe your husband gold; your worthy husband himself had gold; knowing that after death there would be temporary poverty, therefore he hid gold to await peace; the reason he did not tell sons and daughters-in-law was fear that when the gold was exhausted distress would have no end. Knowing I am good at the Changes, therefore he wrote the board to entrust his meaning. The gold is five hundred jin, stored in green jars, covered with bronze platters, buried at the east end of the main hall, one zhang from the wall, nine chi into the earth." She dug and found every coin as the yarrow said.
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卜珝
Bu Xu.
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卜珝，字子玉，匈奴後部人也。 少好讀《易》，郭璞見而歎曰：「吾所弗如也，柰何不免兵厄！」 珝曰：「然。 吾大厄在四十一，位為卿將，當受禍耳。 不爾者，亦為猛獸所害。 吾亦未見子之令終也。」 璞曰：「吾禍在江南，甚營之，未見免兆。 雖然，在南猶可延期，住此不過時月。」 珝曰：「子勿為公吏，可以免諸。」 璞曰：「吾不能免公吏，猶子之不能免卿將也。」 珝曰：「吾此雖當有帝王子，終不復奉二京矣。 琅邪可奉，卿謹奉之，主晉祀者必此人也。」 珝遂隱于龍門山。 劉元海僭號，徵為大司農、侍中，固以疾辭。 元海曰：「人各有心，卜珝不欲在吾朝，何異高祖四公哉！ 可遂其高志。」 後復徵為光祿大夫，珝謂使者曰：「非吾死所也。」 及劉聰嗣偽位，徵為太常。 時劉琨據并州，聰問何時可平，珝答曰：「并州陛下之分，今茲克之必矣。」 聰戲曰：「朕欲勞先生一行可乎？」 珝曰：「臣所以來不及裝者，正為是行也。」 聰大悅，署珝使持節、平北將軍。 將行，謂其妹曰：「此行也，死自吾分，後慎勿紛紜。」 及攻晉陽，為琨所敗，珝卒先奔，為其元帥所殺。
Bu Xu, courtesy name Ziyu, belonged to the Xiongnu rear division. In his youth he loved reading the Changes; Guo Pu saw him and sighed, "What I cannot match—yet how can you avoid the calamity of weapons!" Xu said, "So it is. My great calamity is at forty-one; my position will be minister and general; I shall receive disaster. If not that, I will likewise be harmed by a fierce beast. I likewise have not yet seen your good end." Pu said, "My calamity is in Jiangnan; I greatly take precautions for it; I have not yet seen signs of escape. Even so, in the south I can still prolong the term; dwelling here will not exceed months." Xu said, "You must not become a public clerk; then you can avoid the various." Pu said, "I cannot avoid being a public clerk, just as you cannot avoid being minister and general." Xu said, "Although here there ought to be an imperial prince, in the end I will not again serve the two capitals. Langye can be served; you carefully serve him; the one who will uphold Jin's sacrifices is sure to be this man." Bu Xu withdrew to Mount Longmen. Liu Yuan summoned him as grand minister of agriculture and palace attendant; illness was his excuse. Yuanhai said, "Each person has his own mind; Bu Xu not wishing to be in my court—how is it different from the Four Lords of the High Ancestor! Let him follow his lofty intent." Later he was again summoned as Grand Master of Splendid Brightness; Xu said to the envoy, "It is not the place of my death." Liu Cong named him grand master of ceremonies. At the time Liu Kun held Bing Province; Cong asked when it could be pacified; Xu answered, "Bing Province is Your Majesty's division; now this year taking it is sure." Cong jested, "I wish to trouble the master to go on one journey—may it be done?" Xu said, "The reason your servant came without finishing packing is precisely for this journey." Delighted, Liu Cong made him credential-bearing general who pacifies the north. About to depart, he said to his younger sister, "In this journey, death is my lot; afterward be careful not to make confusion." At Jinyang Liu Kun routed the host; Bu Xu ran first and his commander-in-chief executed him for it.
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鮑靚
Bao Jing.
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鮑靚，字太玄，東海人也。 年五歲，語父母云：「本是曲陽李家兒，九歲墜井死。」 其父母尋訪得李氏，推問皆符驗。 靚學兼內外，明天文河洛書，稍遷南陽中部都尉，為南海太守。 嘗行部入海，遇風，饑甚，取白石煮食之以自濟。 王機時為廣州刺史，入廁，忽見二人著烏衣，與機相捍，良久擒之，得二物似烏鴨。 靚曰：「此物不祥。」 機焚之，徑飛上天，機尋誅死。 靚嘗見仙人陰君，授道訣，百餘歲卒。
Bao Jing, courtesy name Taixuan, came from Donghai. At age five he told his parents, saying, "Originally I was a son of the Li family of Quyang; at nine I fell into a well and died." They traced the Li household and every detail matched. He mastered Confucian and occult lore, astronomy, and River Chart texts, rose to Nanyang commandant, then Nanhai governor. Caught in a gale at sea, he boiled white stones to stay alive. Guangzhou governor Wang Ji, in his privy, wrestled two black-clad figures into two crow-shaped things. Jing said, "These things are inauspicious." Wang Ji burned them; they shot skyward; soon he was executed. He met transcendent Yin Jun, received Dao formulas, and died past a hundred.
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吳猛
Wu Meng.
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吳猛，豫章人也。 少有孝行，夏日常手不驅蚊，懼其去己而噬親也。 年四十，邑人丁義始授其神方。 因還豫章，江波甚急，猛不假舟楫，以白羽扇畫水而渡，觀者異之。 庾亮為江州刺史，嘗遇疾，聞猛神異，乃迎之，問己疾何如。 猛辭以算盡，請具棺服。 旬日而死，形狀如生。 未及大斂，遂失其屍。 識者以為亮不祥之徵。 亮疾果不起。
Wu Meng came from Yuzhang. In summer he let mosquitoes bite his own flesh lest they reach his parents. At forty Ding Yi of his town gave him spirit recipes. Returning to Yuzhang he fanned the rapids with a white feather fan and walked the waves while crowds gaped. Jiangzhou governor Yu Liang, ill, summoned the wonder-worker Wu Meng to ask his prognosis. Wu Meng said his allotted span was spent and asked for shroud and coffin. Within ten days he was dead, yet looked as though he merely slept. Before the lying-in-state, the body vanished. Knowledgable men took it for a dark portent for Yu Liang. Yu Liang's sickness proved fatal.
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幸靈
Xing Ling.
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幸靈者，豫章建昌人也。 性少言，與小人群居，見侵辱而無慍色，邑裏號之癡，雖其父母兄弟亦以為癡也。 嘗使守稻，群牛食之，靈見而不驅，待牛去乃往理其殘亂者。 其父母見而怒之，靈曰：「夫萬物生天地之間，各欲得食。 牛方食，柰何驅之！」 其父愈怒曰：「即如汝言，復用理壞者何為？」 靈曰：「此稻又欲得終其性，牛自犯之，靈可以不收乎！」
Xing Ling came from Jianchang in Yuzhang commandery. He was a man of few words who lived among laborers, bore insult without anger, and was dismissed by kin and neighbors alike as simple-minded. Set to watch the paddies, he let cattle graze unmolested, then straightened the trampled stalks once they wandered off. His parents saw and were angry with him; Ling said, "The myriad things born between Heaven and Earth each wish to obtain food. The cattle are just eating—how can I drive them!" His father was still more angry and said, "If it is just as you say, what is the use again of putting in order what is ruined?" Ling said, "This rice again wishes to fulfill its nature; the cattle themselves violated it—how can Ling not gather it in!"
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時順陽樊長賓為建昌令，發百姓作官船於建城山中，吏令人各作箸一雙。 靈作而未輸，或竊之焉。 俄而竊者心痛欲死，靈謂之曰：「爾得無竊我箸乎？」 竊者不應。 有頃，愈急，靈曰：「若爾不以情告我者，今真死矣。」 竊者急遽，乃首出之。 靈於是飲之以水，病即立愈。 行人由此敬畏之。 船成，當下，吏以二百人引一艘，不能動，方請益人。 靈曰：「此以過足，但部分未至耳。 靈請自牽之。」 乃手執箸，惟用百人，而船去如流。 眾大驚怪，咸稱其神，於是知名。
Fan Changbin of Shunyang, then Jianchang magistrate, levied labor to build government barges in Jiancheng hills and ordered every household to carve one pair of chopsticks. Xing Ling carved his pair but someone stole them before delivery. Before long the thief's heart hurt as if dying; Ling said to him, "Could it be that you stole my chopsticks?" The thief stayed silent. After a moment it grew worse; Ling said, "If you do not tell me the truth, now you will truly die." The thief confessed in panic. Xing Ling gave him water and the fit vanished. Wayfarers spread word of his power and learned to fear him. Two hundred men could not budge a finished hull downstream; the overseers meant to call for more hands. Ling said, "This force is already more than enough; only the disposition has not yet arrived. Ling requested to pull it himself." Gripping his chopsticks, he used just a hundred men and the hull slid like a current. The crowd cried miracle and his fame spread.
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有龔仲儒女病積年，氣息財屬，靈使以水含之，已而強起，應時大愈。 又呂猗母皇氏得痿痹病，十有餘年，靈療之，去皇氏數尺而坐，冥目寂然，有頃，顧謂猗曰：「扶夫人令起。」 猗曰：「老人得病累年，奈何可倉卒起邪？」 靈曰：「但試扶起。」 於是兩人夾扶以立。 少選，靈又令去扶，即能自行，由此遂愈。 於是百姓奔趣，水陸輻輳，從之如雲。 皇氏自以病久，懼有發動，靈乃留水一器令食之，每取水，輒以新水補處，二十餘年水清如新，塵垢不能加焉。
Gong Zhongru's daughter had lain at death's door for years; he had her rinse with water, then she sat up and healed. Again Lu Yi's mother Lady Huang contracted atrophy-paralysis illness for more than ten years; Ling treated her, sitting several chi from Lady Huang, eyes closed in stillness; after a moment he looked back and told Yi, "Support the lady and order her to rise." Yi said, "The old woman has been ill many years—how can she suddenly rise?" Ling said, "Only try supporting her to rise." Two servants propped her upright. Moments later he bade them let go; she walked unaided and thereafter recovered. Commoners flocked from every road and river until his following swelled like clouds. Fearing relapse, she kept his water jar—each draught she refilled, and for twenty years the water stayed pure as when he charmed it.
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時高悝家有鬼怪，言語訶叱，投擲內外，不見人形，或器物自行，再三發火，巫祝厭劾而不能絕。 適值靈，乃要之。 靈於陌頭望其屋，謂悝曰：「此君之家邪？」 悝曰：「是也。」 靈曰：「知之足矣。」 悝固請之，靈不得已，至門，見符索甚多，謂悝曰：「當以正止邪，而以邪救邪，惡得已乎！」 並使焚之，惟據軒小坐而去，其夕鬼怪即絕。
Gao Kui's house was plagued by a poltergeist—voices, flying objects, self-moving tools, recurrent fires—shamans failed to quell it. They met Xing Ling and pressed him to help. Ling at the end of the lane looked at the house and said to Kui, "Is this your lord's home?" Kui said, "It is so." Ling said, "Knowing is enough." Kui firmly requested him; Ling, having no choice, reached the gate, saw very many talisman cords, and said to Kui, "One ought to use the straight to stop the deviant, yet you use the deviant to save the deviant—how can it be stopped!" He ordered the charms burned, lingered briefly on the porch, and that night the haunting ended.
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靈所救愈多此類，然不取報謝。 行不騎乘，長不娶妻，性至恭，見人即先拜，言輒自名。 凡草木之夭傷于山林者，必起理之，器物之傾覆于途路者，必舉正之。 周旋江州間，謂其士人曰：「天地之於人物，一也，咸欲不失其情性，奈何制服人以為奴婢乎！ 諸君若欲享多福以保性命，可悉免遣之。」 十餘年間，賴其術以濟者極多。 後乃娶妻，畜車以奴婢，受貨賂致遺，於是其術稍衰，所療得失相半焉。
He cured countless folk yet took no fee. He walked everywhere, never married, bowed first to every passerby, and always named himself in speech. He straightened broken saplings in the hills and righted overturned jars on the road. Moving about between Jiang Province he said to its gentlemen, "Heaven and Earth's relation to people and things is one; all wish not to lose their genuine nature—why bind people and make them slaves and maids! If you gentlemen wish to enjoy abundant blessing and preserve life, you may all release and send them away." For a decade multitudes owed him their lives. Later he wed, kept carriage and concubines, took fees, and his cures hit or miss.
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佛圖澄
Fotucheng.
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佛圖澄，天竺人也。 本姓帛氏。 少學道，妙通玄術， 永嘉四年，來適洛陽，自雲百有餘歲，常服氣自養，能積日不食。 善誦神咒，能役使鬼神。 腹旁有一孔，常以絮塞之，每夜讀書，則拔絮，孔中出光，照於一室。 又嘗齋時，平旦至流水側，從腹旁孔中引出五藏六府洗之，訖，還內腹中。 又能聽鈴音以言吉凶，莫不懸驗。
Fotucheng came from India. His clan had originally been Bo. Youthful Dao study gave him mastery of occult technique. In Yongjia 4, he reached Luoyang claiming a century of age, nourished himself on breath, and fasted for days on end. He chanted dharanis and commanded ghosts and gods. A hole in his flank, corked with cotton, blazed forth lamplight each night he read. At dawn on a fast day he drew organs from the aperture, rinsed them in running water, and tucked them back. Temple bells told him fortune, and every omen proved true.
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及洛中寇亂，乃潛草野以觀變。 石勒屯兵葛陂，專行殺戮，沙門遇害者其眾。 澄投勒大將軍郭黑略家，黑略每從勒征伐，輒豫克勝負，勒疑而問曰：「孤不覺卿有出眾智謀，而每知軍行吉凶何也？」 黑略曰：「將軍天挺神武，幽靈所助，有一沙門智術非常，雲將軍當略有區夏，己應為師。 臣前後所白，皆其言也。」 勒召澄，試以道術。 澄即取缽盛水，燒香咒之，須臾缽中生青蓮花，光色曜日，勒由此信之。
Luoyang's turmoil drove him to lie low in the weeds and watch events. Shi Le camped at Gebei in slaughter; monks died in droves. Cheng threw himself on the house of Le's great general Guo Heilie; Heilie each time followed Le on campaigns and always beforehand knew victory and defeat; Le doubted and asked, "I do not perceive that you have outstanding wisdom and stratagem—yet how is it you always know the army's march auspicious or inauspicious?" Heilie said, "The general is heaven-endowed divine martial; dark spirits aid him; there is one shramana whose wisdom and arts are extraordinary; he says the general ought to seize the Xia regions and I ought to be his teacher. What your servant has reported before and after is all his words." Shi Le summoned Fotucheng to test his powers. Fotucheng conjured a blazing green lotus in a water bowl, and Shi Le believed.
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勒自葛陂還河北，過枋頭，枋頭人夜欲斫營，澄謂黑略曰：「須臾賊至，可令公知。」 果如其言，有備，故不敗。 勒欲試澄，夜冠胄衣甲，執刀而坐，遣人告澄云：「夜來不知大將軍何所在。」 使人始至，未及有言，澄逆問曰：「平居無寇，何故夜嚴？」 勒益信之。 勒後因忿，欲害諸道士，並欲苦澄。 澄乃潛避至黑略舍，語弟子曰：「若將軍信至，問吾所在者，報雲不知所之。」 既而勒使至，覓澄不得。 使還報勒，勒驚曰：「吾有惡意向澄，澄舍我去矣。」 通夜不寢，思欲見澄。 澄知勒意悔，明旦造勒。 勒曰：「昨夜何行？」 澄曰：「公有怒心，昨故權避公。 今改意，是以敢來。」 勒大笑曰：「道人謬矣。」
When Le returned from Gebei to Hebei, passing Fangtou, the people of Fangtou at night wished to raid the camp; Cheng told Heilie, "In a moment bandits will arrive—you may let the duke know." The raid came as foretold but met prepared defenses. Le wished to test Cheng; at night he donned helmet and armor, grasped a knife and sat, sent a person to tell Cheng, saying, "In the night we do not know where the great general is." When the messenger had just arrived, before there were words, Cheng preemptively asked, "In ordinary times without bandits, why strictness at night?" Shi Le's faith deepened. Later, in a rage, Shi Le meant to kill Daoist priests and torture Fotucheng. Cheng then secretly fled to Heilie's quarters, telling his disciples, "If the general's messenger arrives and asks where I am, report saying you do not know where he has gone." Shi Le's runners found no trace of him. The messenger returned and reported to Le; Le startled said, "I had an evil intent toward Cheng; Cheng has abandoned me and left." He lay sleepless, longing to see him. Sensing remorse, Fotucheng appeared at dawn. Le said, "Where did you go last night?" Cheng said, "Your lordship had an angry mind; yesterday I therefore temporarily avoided your lordship. Now your mind has changed; therefore I dare to come." Le laughed greatly and said, "The Daoist is mistaken."
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襄國城塹水源在城西北五里，其水源暴竭，勒問澄何以致水。 澄曰：「今當敕龍取水。」 乃與弟子法首等數人至故泉源上，坐繩床，燒安息香，咒願數百言。 如此三日，水泫然微流，有一小龍長五六寸許，隨水而來，諸道士競往觀之。 有頃，水大至，隍塹皆滿。
Xiangguo's moat ran dry; Shi Le asked Fotucheng to restore it. Cheng said, "Now we ought to command the dragon to fetch water." He and disciples like Fashou sat rope beds at the dry head, burned frankincense, and chanted hundreds of lines. After three days a trickle began; a six-inch dragon rode the flow while Daoists crowded to watch. Soon torrents filled ditch and moat.
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鮮卑段末波攻勒，眾甚盛。 勒懼，問澄。 澄曰：「昨日寺鈴鳴雲，明旦食時，當擒段末波。」 勒登城望末波軍，不見前後，失色曰：「末波如此，豈可獲乎！」 更遣夔安問澄。 澄曰：「已獲末波矣。」 時城北伏兵出，遇末波，執之。 澄勸勒宥末波，遣還本國，勒從之，卒獲其用。
Xianbei chieftain Duan Mobo besieged Shi Le with a mighty host. Shi Le, afraid, consulted Fotucheng. Cheng said, "Yesterday the monastery bell sounded saying, at the meal hour tomorrow morning, you will seize Duan Mobo." Le ascended the city and gazed at Mobo's army, not seeing front or rear, changed color and said, "Mobo like this—how can he be captured!" He sent Kui An back to the monk. Cheng said, "Mobo has already been captured." Northern ambushers sprang forth and seized Duan Mobo. Fotucheng urged mercy; Shi Le released Mobo and later profited from his loyalty.
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劉曜遣從弟岳攻勒，勒遣石季龍距之。 嶽敗，退保石梁塢，季龍堅柵守之。 澄在襄國，忽歎曰：「劉嶽可憫！」 弟子法祚問其故，澄曰「昨日亥時，嶽已敗被執。」 果如所言。
Liu Yao sent cousin Liu Yue against Shi Le, who answered with Shi Hu. Liu Yue retreated to Shiliang stockade; Shi Hu locked palisades around him. Cheng in Xiangguo suddenly sighed, saying, "Liu Yue is pitiable!" The disciple Fazuo asked the reason; Cheng said, "Yesterday at the hai double-hour Yue had already been defeated and captured." News proved him right.
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及曜自攻洛陽，勒將救之，其群下咸諫以為不可。 勒以訪澄，澄曰：「相輪鈴音云：'秀支替戾岡，僕穀劬禿當。」 此羯語也，秀支，軍也。 替戾岡，出也。 僕谷，劉曜胡位也。 劬禿當，捉也。 此言軍出捉得曜也。」 又令一童子潔齋七日，取麻油合胭脂，躬自研於掌中，舉手示童子，粲然有輝。 童子驚曰：「有軍馬甚眾，見一人長大白晳，以硃絲縛其肘。」 澄曰：「此即曜也。」 勒其悅，遂赴洛距曜，生擒之。
When Liu Yao besieged Luoyang, Shi Le meant to march; every minister called it folly. Le consulted Cheng; Cheng said, "The sound of the stupa-wheel bell says: 'Xiuzhi tiligang, pugu qutu dang.'" That tongue was Jie: xiuzhi meant 'army.' Tiligang meant 'march forth.' Pugu was the Jie title for Liu Yao. Qutu dang meant 'capture.' This says the army goes out and seizes and obtains Yao." He had a lad fast seven days, then rubbed sesame oil and rouge in his palm until it flashed blindingly for the boy to see. The boy startled said, "There are very many army horses; I see one man, tall, white and bright, with cinnabar silk binding his elbow." Cheng said, "This is indeed Yao." Shi Le rejoiced, marched to Luoyang, and took Liu Yao prisoner.
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勒僭稱趙天王，行皇帝事，敬澄彌篤。 時石蔥將叛，澄誡勒曰：「今年蔥中有蟲，食必害人，可令百姓無食蔥也。」 勒班告境內，慎無食蔥。 俄而石蔥果走。 勒益重之，事必諮而後行，號曰大和尚。
Shi Le styled himself Zhao heaven-king and ruled as emperor while honoring Fotucheng ever more deeply. At the time Shi Cong was about to rebel; Cheng warned Le, saying, "This year in scallions there are worms; eating them is sure to harm people—you may order the common people not to eat scallions." Shi Le banned scallions across the realm. Shi Cong soon fled as foretold. Shi Le deferred on every policy and titled him Great Monk.
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勒愛子斌暴病死，將殯，勒歎曰：「朕聞虢太子死，扁鵲能生之，今可得效乎？」 乃令告澄。 澄取楊枝沾水，灑而咒之。 就執斌手曰：「可起矣！」 因此遂蘇，有頃，平復。 自是勒諸子多在澄寺中養之。 勒死之年，天靜無風，而塔上一鈴獨鳴，澄謂眾曰：「鈴音雲，國有大喪，不出今年矣。」 既而勒果死。
Le's beloved son Bin died suddenly of illness; about to encoffin him, Le sighed, "I have heard that when the crown prince of Guo died, Bian Que could revive him—may we now obtain that effect?" He summoned Fotucheng. The monk sprinkled Bin with willow water and chanted. He grasped Bin's hand and said, "You may rise!" Shi Bin stirred, then fully recovered. After that Shi Le boarded his sons in Fotucheng's cloister. In the year Le died, heaven was still without wind, yet one bell on the pagoda alone rang; Cheng told the crowd, "The bell's sound says the state has a great mourning—not beyond this year." Shi Le died on cue.
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及季龍僭位，遷都於鄴，傾心事澄，有重於勒。 下書衣澄以綾錦，乘以雕輦，朝會之日，引之升殿，常侍以下悉助舉輿，太子諸公扶翼而上，主者唱大和尚，眾坐皆起，以彰其尊。 又使司空李農旦夕親問，其太子諸公五日一朝，尊敬莫與為比。 支道林在京師，聞澄與諸石遊，乃曰：「澄公其以季龍為海鷗鳥也。 百姓因澄故多奉佛，皆營造寺廟，相競出家，真偽混淆，多生愆過。 季龍下書料簡，其著作郎王度奏曰：「佛，外國之神，非諸華所應祠奉。 漢代初傳其道，惟聽西域人得立寺都邑，以奉其神，漢人皆不出家。 魏承漢制，亦循前軌。 今可斷趙人悉不聽詣寺燒香禮拜，以遵典禮，其百辟卿士下逮眾隸，例皆禁之，其有犯者，與淫祀同罪。 其趙人為沙門者，還服百姓。」 朝士多同度所奏。 季龍以澄故，下書曰：「朕出自邊戎，忝君諸夏，至於饗祀，應從本俗。 佛是戎神，所應兼奉，其夷趙百姓有樂事佛者，特聽之。」
Shi Hu moved the court to Ye and honored Fotucheng more than Shi Le had. He draped the monk in silk, gave him a carved litter, and made the whole court hoist him to the throne dais while criers hailed Great Monk and every seat rose. Minister Li Nong tended him daily; princes waited on him every five days—unmatched homage. Zhi Daolin in the capital, hearing that Cheng associated with the various Shi, then said, "Lord Cheng surely takes Jilong for a sea gull bird. Because of Cheng the commoners for the most part took up Buddhism, all building temples and competing to leave home—true and false mixed, and very many faults arose. Jilong issued an edict to examine them; his editorial director Wang Du memorialized, saying, "Buddha is a god of foreign lands—not what the various Hua ought to worship and serve. In Han when the Way first spread, only Western Region persons were allowed to erect temples in the capital to serve their god; Han people all did not leave home. Wei inherited Han's system and likewise followed the former track. Now we may cut off Zhao people entirely from hearing them go to temples to burn incense and bow in worship, to follow canonical ritual—from the hundred ministers and grandees down to the mass of bondservants, by rule all forbid it; those who violate it share the crime of licentious sacrifice. Those among Zhao people who became shramanas should return to commoner dress." Court gentlemen mostly agreed with what Du memorialized. Jilong because of Cheng issued an edict saying, "I come from the border Rong; I disgrace myself as lord of the various Xia—as to offerings and sacrifice, I ought to follow my native customs. Buddha is a Rong god; one ought jointly to serve him; among barbarian and Zhao commoners those who delight in serving Buddha are specially permitted."
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澄時止鄴城寺中，弟子遍于郡國。 嘗遣弟子法常北至襄國，弟子法佐從襄國還，相遇于梁基城下，對車夜談，言及和尚，比旦各去。 佐始入，澄逆笑曰：「昨夜爾與法常交車共說汝師邪？」 佐愕然愧懺。 於是國人每相語：「莫起噁心，和尚知汝。」 及澄之所在，無敢向其方面涕唾者。
Fotucheng lived at Ye's great cloister with disciples in every province. Disciples Fachang and Fazuo met at Liangji, talked in their carts till dawn about their teacher, then parted. When Zuo had just entered, Cheng preemptively laughed and said, "Last night you and Fachang crossed carts together speaking of your teacher, did you not?" Fazuo flushed with shame. Thereupon people of the state each told one another, "Do not raise an evil mind—the monk knows you." None spat toward Fotucheng's quarter.
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季龍太子邃有二字，在襄國，澄語邃曰：「小阿彌比當得疾，可往看之。」 邃即馳信往視，果已得疾。 太醫殷騰及外國道士自言能療之。 澄告弟子法牙曰：「正使聖人復出，不愈此疾，況此等乎！」 後三日果死。 邃將圖為逆，謂內豎曰：「和尚神通，儻發吾謀。 明日來者，當先除之。」 澄月望將入覲季龍，謂弟子僧慧曰：「昨夜天神呼我曰：'明日若入，還勿過人。」 我儻有所過，汝當止我。」 澄常入，必過邃。 邃知澄入，要侯甚苦。 澄將上南台，僧慧引衣，澄曰：「事不得止。」 坐未安便起，邃固留不住，所謀遂差。 還寺，歎曰：「太子作亂，其形將成，欲言難言，欲忍難忍。」 乃因事從容箴季龍，季龍終不能解。 俄而事發，方悟澄言。
Jilong's heir Shi Sui had two sons in Xiangguo; Cheng told Sui, "Little Amita will presently fall ill—you may go look at him." Sui's courier found the boy already ill. Court physician Yin Teng and foreign priests boasted a cure. Cheng told his disciple Faya, "Even if sages returned, they could not cure this illness—how much less these!" The boy died in three days. Sui was about to plot rebellion; he told the inner attendants, "The monk's spirit penetration—if he divulges my plan. Whoever comes tomorrow, we ought first to eliminate him." Cheng on the fifteenth of the month was about to enter audience with Jilong; he told his disciple Seng Hui, "Last night a spirit called me saying: 'If you enter tomorrow, on the return do not pass others.'" If I perhaps pass someone, you ought to stop me." Fotucheng always called on Shi Sui after audience. Shi Sui lay in wait. Cheng was about to ascend the south terrace; Seng Hui pulled his robe; Cheng said, "The affair cannot be stopped." He rose before sitting long; Shi Sui could not hold him and the plot misfired. Returning to the monastery, he sighed, "The heir is about to rebel; its form is about to complete—I wish to speak yet it is hard to speak; I wish to endure yet it is hard to endure." He hinted to Shi Hu, who grasped nothing. When the coup erupted, Shi Hu recalled the warning.
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後郭黑略將兵征長安北山羌，墮羌伏中。 時澄在堂上坐，慘然改容曰：「郭公今有厄。」 乃唱云：「眾僧祝願。」 澄又自祝願。 須臾，更曰：若東南出者活，余向者則困。」 復更祝願。 有頃，曰：「脫矣。」 後月餘，黑略還，自說墜羌圍中，東南走，馬乏，正遇帳下人，推馬與之曰：「公乘此馬，小人乘公馬，濟與不濟，命也。」 略得其馬，故獲免。 推檢時日，正是澄祝願時也。
Guo Heilie marched against northern Qiang and walked into an ambush. At the time Cheng was sitting in the hall, changed color mournfully and said, "Lord Guo now has a calamity." Thereupon he intoned, "All monks pray blessing." He added his own prayer. After a moment he again said, "If they go out to the southeast they live; those who go toward the remainder are trapped." He chanted again. After a moment he said, "Escaped." After more than a month Heilie returned, saying of himself that he had fallen into Qiang's surround, fled southeast, his horses were exhausted, just then met a man of his tent staff who pushed a horse to him and said, "Your lordship ride this horse; your servant rides your lordship's horse—whether we ford or not is fate." That spare horse saved him. The timestamps matched Fotucheng's chant.
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時天旱，季龍遣其太子詣臨漳西滏口祈雨，久而不降，乃令澄自行，即有白龍二頭降於祠所，其日大雨方數千里。 澄嘗遣弟子向西域市香，既行，澄告余弟子曰：「掌中見買香弟子在某處被劫垂死。」 因燒香祝願，遙救護之。 弟子後還，雲某月某日某處為賊所劫，垂當見殺，忽聞香氣，賊無故自驚曰：「救兵已至。」 棄之而走。 黃河中舊不生黿，時有得者，以獻季龍。 澄見而之曰：「桓溫入河，其不久乎！」 溫字元子，後果如其言也。 季龍嘗晝寢，夢見群羊負魚從東北來，寤以訪澄。 澄曰：「不祥也，鮮卑其有中原乎！」 後亦皆驗。 澄嘗與季龍升中台，澄忽驚曰：「變，變，幽州當火災。」 乃取酒噀之，久而笑曰：「救已得矣。」 季龍遣驗幽州，雲爾日火從四門起，西南有黑雲來，驟雨滅之，雨亦頗有酒氣。
During drought Shi Hu's heir prayed at Fuyin in vain until Fotucheng went; twin white dragons descended and rain soaked a thousand li. Cheng once sent disciples west to the Western Regions to buy incense; after they had gone, Cheng told the remaining disciples, "In my palm I see the incense-buying disciples at such-and-such a place being robbed and on the point of death." He burned incense and rescued them at a distance. The disciples later returned, saying on such-and-such a month and day at such-and-such a place they were robbed by bandits and were about to be killed, when suddenly they smelled incense; the bandits without cause startled themselves and said, "Relief troops have already arrived." The brigands dropped them and bolted. Yellow River turtles were rare; someone presented one to Shi Hu. Cheng saw it and said to him, "Huan Wen enters the river—will it not be before long!" Huan Wen's courtesy name was Yuanzi; the prophecy came true. Shi Hu dreamed sheep carrying fish from the northeast and asked Fotucheng. Cheng said, "It is inauspicious; the Xianbei are about to have the Central Plain!" Later events proved him right. Cheng once ascended the middle terrace with Jilong; Cheng suddenly startled and said, "Change, change—Youzhou is about to have a fire disaster." Thereupon he took wine and sprayed it; after a long while he laughed and said, "The rescue has already been obtained." Inspectors reported four-gate fires doused by a southwest black cloud and a rain that smelled of wine.
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石宣將殺石韜，宣先到寺與澄同坐，浮屠一鈴獨鳴，澄謂曰：「解鈴音乎？ 鈴云胡子洛度。」 宣變色曰：「是何言歟？」 澄謬曰：「老胡為道，不能山居無言，重茵美服，豈非洛度乎！」 石韜後至，澄孰視良久。 韜懼而問澄，澄曰：「怪公血臭，故相視耳。」 季龍夢龍飛西南，自天而落，旦而問澄，澄曰：「禍將作矣，宜父子慈和，深以慎之。」 季龍引澄入東閣，與其後杜氏問訊之。 澄曰：「脅下有賊，不出十日，自浮圖以西，此殿以東，當有血流，慎勿東也。」 杜后曰：「和尚耄邪！ 何處有賊？」 澄即易語云：「六情所受，皆悉是賊。 老自應耄，但使少者不昏即好耳。」 遂便寓言，不復彰的。 後二日，宣果遣人害韜於佛寺中，欲因季龍臨喪殺之。 季龍以澄先誡，故獲免。 及宣被收，澄諫季龍曰：「皆陛下之子也，何為重禍邪！ 陛下若含怒加慈者，尚有六十餘歲。 如必誅之，宣當為彗星下掃鄴宮。」 季龍不從。 後月餘，有一妖馬，髦尾皆有燒狀，入中陽門，出顯陽門，東首東宮，皆不得入，走向東北，俄爾不見。 澄聞而歎曰：「災其及矣！」 季龍大享群臣于太武前殿，澄吟曰：「殿乎，殿乎！ 棘子成林，將壞人衣。」 季龍令發殿石下視之，有棘生焉。 冉閔小字棘奴。
Shi Xuan was about to kill Shi Tao; Xuan first arrived at the monastery and sat with Cheng; one pagoda bell alone rang; Cheng said to him, "Do you understand the bell's sound? The bell says Huzi Luodu." Xuan changed color and said, "What sort of talk is this!" Cheng pretended, saying, "Old Hu for the Way cannot dwell in the mountains without speech; layered mats and fine clothes—are they not rah-rodo!" When Shi Tao afterward arrived, Cheng stared long. Tao was afraid and questioned Cheng; Cheng said, "I marveled that your lordship's blood stank; therefore I looked." Jilong dreamed a dragon flew southwest, falling from heaven; at dawn he asked Cheng; Cheng said, "Disaster is about to happen; you ought to be father and sons kindly harmonious and deeply be careful of it." Jilong led Cheng into the eastern chamber and with his empress Du questioned him. Cheng said, "Beneath the ribs there is a thief; within ten days, west of this pagoda and east of this hall, there ought to be flowing blood—be careful not to go east." Empress Du said, "Monk, are you senile! Where is there a thief?" Cheng immediately shifted language, saying, "What the six emotions receive—all are thieves. I myself ought to be senile, but if it makes the young not reckless that is well." Thereupon he spoke in allegory and no longer made it explicit. After two days Xuan indeed sent men to harm Tao inside a Buddha temple, wishing to take advantage of Jilong's coming to mourning to kill him. Jilong because Cheng had forewarned therefore was spared. When Xuan was seized, Cheng remonstrated Jilong, saying, "They are all Your Majesty's sons—why double the calamity! If Your Majesty will contain wrath and add kindness, you still have more than sixty years. If you are sure to execute him, Xuan will become a broom comet sweeping down on the Ye palace." Jilong did not follow this. After more than a month there was one demon horse whose mane and tail both had burnt marks; it entered Zhongyang Gate, went out Xianyang Gate, tried east to the Eastern Palace but could not enter, ran toward the northeast, and before long disappeared. When Cheng heard he sighed and said, "The calamity will reach us!" Jilong greatly feasted his ministers at the Taiwu front hall; Cheng chanted, "Hall, oh hall! Thorns will grow into a forest; they will tear men's clothes." Jilong ordered them to dig beneath the hall stones and look; there were thorns growing. Ran Min's childhood name was Thorn Slave.
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季龍造太武殿初成，圖畫自古賢聖、忠臣、孝子、烈士、貞女，皆變為胡狀，旬餘，頭悉縮入肩中，惟冠䯰仿佛微出，季龍大惡之，秘而不言也。 澄對之流涕，乃自啟塋墓於鄴西紫陌，還寺，獨語曰：「得三年乎？」 自答：「不得。」 又曰：「得二年、一年、百日、一月乎？」 自答：「不得。」 遂無復言。 謂弟子法祚曰：「戊申歲禍亂漸萌，己酉石氏當滅。 吾及其未亂，先從化矣。」 卒于鄴宮寺。 後有沙門從雍州來，稱見澄西入關，季龍掘而視之，惟有一石無屍。 季龍惡之曰：「石者，朕也，葬我而去，吾將死矣。」 因而遇疾。 明年，季龍死，遂大亂。
New Taiwu hall murals of Chinese paragons morphed into barbarian faces, heads sinking into shoulders—Shi Hu hid the horror. Cheng wept facing it, then personally opened a tomb mound west of Ye on Purple Lane; returning to the monastery he spoke alone, saying, "Can I obtain three years?" He himself answered, "Cannot." Again he said, "Can I obtain two years, one year, one hundred days, one month?" He himself answered, "Cannot." Then he fell silent. He told his disciple Fazuo, "In the wushen year misfortune and chaos gradually sprout; in jiyou the Shi clan will be destroyed. I will precede transformation before they yet are in chaos." He died in the palace monastery at Ye. A monk from Yongzhou claimed Fotucheng went west; Shi Hu opened the tomb and found only a stone. Jilong hated it and said, "Stone is I; burying me and leaving— I am about to die." He fell ill. Shi Hu died the next year and the realm collapsed.
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麻襦
Ma Ru.
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麻襦者，不知何許人也，莫得其姓名。 石季龍時，在魏縣市中乞丐，恆著麻襦布裳，故時人謂之麻襦。 言語卓越，狀如狂者，乞得米穀不食，輒散置大路，雲飴天馬。 趙興太守籍狀收送詣季龍。
No one knew Ma Ru's origin or true name. Under Shi Hu he begged in Weixian in hemp breeches—hence the name Hemp-cloth. He raved like a madman, scattered alms rice on the road, calling it fodder for heaven's horses. Zhao Xing governor Ji Zhuang arrested and sent him to Shi Hu.
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先是，佛圖澄謂季龍曰：「國東二百里某月日當送一非常人，勿殺之也。」 如期果至。 季龍與共語，了無異言，惟道：「陛下當終一柱殿下。」 季龍不解，送以詣澄。 麻襦謂澄曰：「昔在光和中會，奄至今日。 酉戎受玄命，絕曆終有期。 金離消于壞，邊荒不能遵，驅除靈期跡，莫已已之懿。 裔苗葉繁，其來方積。 休期於何期，永以歎之。」 澄曰：「天回運極，否將不支，九木水為難，無可以術寧。 玄哲雖存世，莫能基必莫能基必頹。 久游閻浮利，擾擾多此患。 行登陵雲宇，會于虛遊間。」 其所言人莫能曉。 季龍遣驛馬送還本縣，既出城，請步，云：「我當有所過，君至合口橋見待。」 使人如言而馳，至橋，麻襦已先至。
Before this Fotucheng had told Jilong, "East of the state two hundred li on such-and-such a month and day they will deliver one extraordinary man—do not kill him." Ma Ru arrived on schedule. Jilong spoke with him; there was completely no strange speech—he only said, "Your Majesty will end beneath one pillar's hall." Puzzled, Shi Hu sent him to Fotucheng. Ma Ru said to Cheng, "Formerly at the Guanghe middle meeting, suddenly we have reached today. You Rong received the dark mandate; severed reckoning ends with a term. Metal departs in ruin; the border wastes cannot be followed; driving off the spirit term's traces—there is no end to such excellence. Offspring shoots, leaves luxuriant—the coming is just accumulating. When is the rest term—forever I sigh for it." Cheng said, "Heaven's cycle reaches the limit; decline will not hold up; nine trees and water make difficulty—nothing by art can bring peace. Dark wisdom though it dwells in the world cannot found the base, surely cannot found the base—ruin. Long roaming Jambudvipa—tumult has much of this suffering. Walking I will ascend the cloud tower; meet in empty roaming between." None understood their exchange. Jilong sent post horses to escort him back to his native county; after leaving the city he requested to walk, saying, "I must have a stop; you wait for me at Hegkou Bridge." The rider galloped ahead yet Ma Ru was waiting on the bridge.
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後慕容俊投季龍屍于漳水，倚橋柱不流，時人以為「一柱殿下」即謂此也。 及元帝嗣位江左，亦以為「天馬」之應云。
Later Murong Jun threw Jilong's corpse into the Zhang River; it leaned against a bridge pillar and would not float; people of the time thought 'beneath one pillar's hall' meant this. When Emperor Yuan succeeded on the Jiangzuo, they also took it as a response of 'Heaven's horses.'
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單道開
Shan Daokai.
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單道開，敦煌人也。 常衣粗褐，或贈以繒服，皆不著，不畏寒暑，晝夜不臥。 恆服細石子，一吞數枚，日一服，或多或少。 好山居，而山樹諸神見異形試之，初無懼色。 石季龍時，從西平來，一日行七百里，其一沙彌年十四，行亦及之。 至秦州，表送到鄴，季龍令佛圖澄與語，不能屈也。 初止鄴城西沙門法綝祠中，後徙臨漳昭德寺。 于房內造重閣，高八九尺，于上編管為禪室，常坐其中。 季龍資給甚厚，道開皆以施人。 人或來諮問者，道開都不答。 日服鎮守藥數丸，大如梧子，藥有松蜜姜桂伏苓之氣，時復飲荼蘇一二升而已。 自雲能療目疾，就療者頗驗。 視其行動，狀若有神。 佛圖澄曰：「此道士觀國興衰，若去者，當有大亂。」 及季龍末，道開南渡許昌，尋而鄴中大亂。
Shan Daokai came from Dunhuang. He shunned silk gifts, braved heat and cold, and never slept. He daily swallowed a handful of fine pebbles. Mountain spirits tested him with visions; he never flinched. He walked seven hundred li from Xiping in a day with a fourteen-year-old novice at his heels. Qinzhou forwarded him to Ye where Fotucheng could not best him in debate. He first lodged at monk Fachin's west-city shrine, then moved to Zhaode Monastery in Linzhang. He wove a meditation loft eight or nine chi high in his cell. Shi Hu showered gifts; Shan Daokai gave them all away. He answered no questions. He lived on walnut-sized pills scented with pine honey, ginger, cinnamon, and poria, plus an occasional liter or two of herb tea. He claimed to heal eyes and often succeeded. His movements seemed superhuman. Fotucheng said, "This Daoist observes the state's rise and decline; if he leaves, there will be great chaos." Late in Shi Hu's reign Shan Daokai fled south to Xuchang; Ye soon erupted.
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升平三年至京師，後至南海，入羅浮山，獨處茅茨，蕭然物外。 年百餘歲，卒於山舍，敕弟子以屍置石穴中，弟子乃移入石室。 陳郡袁宏為南海太守，與弟穎叔及沙門支法防共登羅浮山，至石室口，見道開形骸如生，香火瓦器猶存。 宏曰：「法師業行殊群，正當如蟬蛻耳。」 乃為之贊云。
In the third year of Shengping, he passed through the capital to Nanhai and lived alone in a Luofu hut. He died past a hundred in a mountain cell, ordering disciples to lay him in a stone cave—they moved him to a stone room. Yuan Hong, his brother, and monk Zhi Fafang climbed Luofu and found Shan Daokai's body intact in the cave with incense pots still there. Hong said, "The dharma master's karma and conduct surpass the crowd—this is rightly like a cicada's sloughing." Yuan Hong wrote his elegy.
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黃泓
Huang Hong.
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黃泓，字始長，魏郡斥丘人也。 父沈，善天文秘術。 泓從父受業，精妙逾深，兼博覽經史，尤明《禮》《易》。 性忠勤，非禮不動。 永嘉之亂，與渤海高瞻避地幽州，說瞻曰：「王浚昏暴，終必無成，宜思去就以圖久安。 慕容廆法政修明，虛懷引納，且讖言真人出東北，儻或是乎？ 宜相與歸之，同建事業。」 瞻不從。 泓乃率宗族歸廆，廆待以客禮，引為參軍，軍國之務動輒訪之。 泓指說成敗，事皆如言。 廆常曰：「黃參軍，孤之仲翔也。」 及皝嗣位，遷左常侍，領史官，甚重之。 石季龍攻皝，皝將走遼東，泓曰：「賊有敗氣，無可憂也，不過二日，必當奔潰。 宜嚴勒士馬，為追擊之備。」 皝曰：「今寇盛如此，卿言必走，孤未敢信。」 泓曰：「殿下言盛者，人事耳，臣言必走者，天時也，胡足為疑！」 及期，季龍果退，皝益奇之。
Huang Hong, courtesy name Shizhang, came from Chiqiu in Wei commandery. His father Huang Shen mastered astronomy and occult arts. Huang Hong surpassed his father in star lore and knew the canon, especially Rites and Changes. He was dutiful and never acted against propriety. At the Yongjia turmoil he with Bohai's Gao Zhan took refuge in You Province; he persuaded Zhan, saying, "Wang Jun is benighted and violent; in the end he will surely accomplish nothing—you ought to think of leaving or staying to plan long peace. Murong Hui's laws and government are cultivated and clear; he empties his bosom to draw men in; moreover prophetic words say the true man issues from the northeast—perhaps this is it? We ought together to go to him and jointly establish enterprise." Gao Zhan refused. Huang Hong led his clan to Murong Hui, who made him military adviser on every weighty matter. His forecasts of rise and fall proved true. Hui often said, "Aide Huang is my Zhongxiang." Murong Huang raised Huang Hong to left attendant-in-ordinary and chief astrologer, deeply trusted. When Shi Jilong attacked Murong Huang, Murong Huang was about to flee to Liaodong; Hong said, "The bandits have the qi of defeat—nothing to worry about; within two days they are sure to flee in rout. You ought strictly to ready knights and horses and make preparations to pursue and strike." Murong Huang said, "Now the raiders are this strong—your saying they are sure to flee—I dare not yet believe." Hong said, "What Your Highness calls strong is human affairs; what your servant calls sure to flee is heaven's season—how is it worth doubting!" Within two days Shi Hu retreated as predicted.
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及慕容俊即王位，遷從事中郎，儁聞冉閔亂，將圖中原，訪之於泓，泓勸行，儁從之。 及僭號，署為進謀將軍、太史令、關內侯，尋加奉車都尉、西海太守、領太史令、開陽亭侯，又封平舒縣五等伯，常從左右，諮決大事，靈台令許敦害其寵，諂事慕容評，設異議以毀之，及以泓為太史靈台諸署統，加給事中。 泓待敦彌厚，不以毀己易心。 慕容暐敗，以老歸家，歎曰：「燕必中興，其在吳王，恨吾年過不見耳。」 年九十七卒。 卒後三年，偽吳王慕容垂興焉。
Murong Jun, hearing Ran Min's chaos, asked Huang Hong, who urged a central-plain campaign—Jun agreed. Murong Jun heaped titles on him—forward-planning general, grand astrologer, marquis, chariot commandant, West Sea governor—while Xu Dun slandered him and Ping reassigned him to head every astrological office plus palace attendant. Huang Hong treated Xu Dun generously despite the slander. When Murong Wei was defeated, he returned home old and sighed, saying, "Yan is sure to have a restoration; it lies with the Prince of Wu—I regret my years are past and I will not see it." He died at ninety-seven. Three years later Murong Chui, the "Wu" prince, rose as he foretold.
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索紞
Suo Dan.
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索紞，字叔徹，敦煌人也。 少游京師，受業太學，博綜經籍，遂為通儒。 明陰陽天文，善術數占侯。 司徒辟，除郎中，知中國將亂，避世而歸。 鄉人從紞占問吉凶，門中如市，紞曰：「攻乎異端，戒在害己； 無為多事，多事多患。」 遂詭言虛說，無驗乃止。 惟以占夢為無悔吝，乃不逆問者。
Suo Dan, courtesy name Shuche, came from Dunhuang. He studied at the capital academy and became a broad scholar. He knew yin-yang, astronomy, and number divination. The minister named him gentleman; foreseeing chaos, he went home. Townspeople followed Dan to divine and ask auspiciousness and inauspiciousness; at the gate it was like a market; Dan said, "Assaulting those heterodox paths—warning lies in harming oneself; Doing nothing is many affairs—many affairs, many troubles." He gave absurd answers until seekers quit. Dream interpretation alone he took seriously and never refused.
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孝廉令狐策夢立冰上，與冰下人語。 紞曰：「冰上為陽，冰下為陰，陰陽事也。 士如歸妻，迨冰未泮，婚姻事也。 君在冰上與冰下人語，為陽語陰，媒介事也。 君當為人作媒，冰泮而婚成。」 策曰：「老夫耄矣，不為媒也。」 會太守田豹因策為子求鄉人張公徵女，仲春而成婚焉。 郡主簿張宅夢走馬上山，還繞舍三周，但見松柏，不知門處。 紞曰：「馬屬離，離為火。 火，禍也。 人上山，為凶字。 但見松伯，墓門象也。 不知門處，為無門也。 三周，三期也。 後三年必有大禍。」 宅果以謀反伏誅。 索充初夢天上有二棺落充前，紞曰：「棺者，職也，當有京師貴人舉君。 二官者，頻再遷。」 俄而司徒王戎書屬太守使舉充，太守先署充功曹而舉孝廉。 充後夢見一虜，脫上衣來詣充。 紞曰：「虜去上中，下半男字，夷狄陰類，君婦當生男。」 終如其言。 宋桷夢內中有一人著赤衣，桷手把兩杖，極打之。 紞曰：「內中有人，肉字也。 肉色，赤也。 兩杖，箸象也。 極打之，飽肉食也。」 俄而亦驗焉。 黃平問紞曰：「我昨夜夢舍中馬舞，數十人向馬拍手，此何祥也？」 紞曰：「馬者，火也，舞為火起。 向馬拍手，救火人也。」 平未歸而火作。 索綏夢東有二角書詣綏，大角朽敗，小角有題韋囊角佩，一在前，一在後。 紞曰：「大角朽敗，腐棺木。 小角有題，題所詣。 一在前，前紞凶也。 一在後，後背也。 當有凶背之問。」 時綏父在東，居三日而凶問至。 郡功曹張邈嘗奉使詣州，夜夢狼啖一腳。 紞曰：「腳肉被啖，為卻字。」 會東虜反，遂不行。 凡所占莫不驗。
Recommended scholar Linghu Ce dreamed he stood on ice talking to someone under the ice. Dan said, "Above the ice is yang; beneath the ice is yin—yin-yang affairs. The gentleman as if taking a wife, while the ice has not yet melted—marriage affairs. Your lordship on the ice speaks with the man beneath the ice—yang speaks to yin—a go-between affair. You ought to act as go-between for people; when the ice melts the marriage is accomplished." Ce said, "This old man is senile; I will not act as go-between." Prefect Tian Bao soon had Ce broker his son's betrothal to Zhang Gongzheng's daughter—the wedding came that mid-spring. Chief clerk Zhang Zhai dreamed a horse climb a hill, circle his house thrice, yet saw only pines with no gate in sight. Dan said, "Horse belongs to li; li is fire. Fire means calamity. Man on a mountain forms the character for 'inauspicious.' Only seeing pines and cypresses is the image of a tomb gate. Not knowing where the gate is means there is no gate. Three circuits mean three periods. After three years there is sure to be a great calamity." Zhang Zhai was executed for treason three years later. Suo Chong at first dreamed two coffins in the sky fell before Chong; Dan said, "Coffin means office; there ought to be a noble man of the capital who recommends your lord. Two offices mean frequent double promotion." Wang Rong soon had the prefect recommend Suo Chong, first as merit clerk, then as filially incorrupt. Suo Chong later dreamed a barbarian strip his jacket and approach him. Dan said, "Captive without the upper middle leaves the lower half as the character 'male'; barbarians are yin in kind—your lordship's wife ought to bear a boy." It proved true. Song Jue dreamed a red figure inside his house whom he beat with twin rods. Dan said, "Inside the house there is a person—the character 'flesh'. Flesh color is red. Two staffs are the image of chopsticks. Beating them extremely means eating meat to satiety." The dream soon came true. Huang Ping asked Dan, saying, "Last night I dreamed horses dancing in my house, several tens of people clapping toward the horses—what is this auspicious sign?" Dan said, "Horse is fire; dancing is fire rising. Clapping toward the horses are the people who put out the fire." Fire broke out before Huang Ping got home. Suo Sui dreamed two horned edicts from the east—one rotted, one inscribed, one before, one aft. Dan said, "The great horn rotten means rotten coffin wood. The small horn having an inscription means the place it addresses. One in front—'before' is Suo's inauspicious. One behind—'behind' is the back. There ought to be a calamity question concerning a back." Suo Sui's father lay eastward; within three days news of his death arrived. Merit clerk Zhang Miao dreamed a wolf chewed his foot on a mission. Dan said, "Foot flesh being gnawed forms the character 'retreat.'" Eastern rebels rose and the journey was canceled. Every divination Suo Dan gave proved true.
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太守陰澹從求占書，紞曰：「昔入太學，因一父老為主人，其人無所不知，又匿姓名，有似隱者，紞因從父老問占夢之術，希申鄙藝，審測而說，實無書也。」 澹命為西閣祭酒，紞辭曰：「少無山林之操，遊學京師，交結時賢，會中國不靖，欲養志終年。 老亦至矣，不求聞達。 又少不習勤，老無吏幹，濛汜之年，弗敢聞命。」 澹以束帛禮之，月致羊酒。 年七十五，卒於家。
Prefect Yin Dan sought divination books from him; Dan said, "Formerly I entered the Imperial Academy and, through one old man as host, that person knew everything and also hid his name, somewhat like a recluse; I therefore asked the old man the art of dream divination, hoping to extend my mean skill—examining and measuring then explaining—truly there are no books." Yin Dan ordered him to be libationer of the west gallery; Suo Dan declined, saying, "In youth I had no bent for mountain forests; I studied in the capital and befriended the worthies of the time; meeting the Middle Kingdom's unrest I wished to nurture my intent to the year's end. Old age also has arrived; I do not seek fame and advancement. Moreover in youth I did not practice diligence; in old age I lack clerkly capacity—in the Mengsi years I dare not hear the command." Yin Dan honored him with silk, mutton, and wine each month. He died at home aged seventy-five.
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孟欽
Meng Qin.
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孟欽，洛陽人也。 有左慈、劉根之術，百姓惑而赴之。 苻堅召詣長安，惡其惑眾，命苻融誅之。 俄而欽至，融留之，遂大宴郡僚，酒酣，目左右收欽。 欽化為旋風，飛出第外。 頃之，有告在城東者，融遣騎追之，垂及，忽然已遠，或有兵眾距戰，或前有溪澗，騎不得過，遂不知所在。 堅未，復見於青州。 苻朗尋之，入於海島。
Meng Qin came from Luoyang. He wielded arts like Zuo Ci and Liu Gen and drew credulous crowds. Fu Jian summoned him to Chang'an, then ordered Fu Rong to kill him for misleading the people. Fu Rong feasted him, then at a signal moved to arrest him. Meng Qin became a whirlwind and blew out of the hall. Pursuers nearly caught him but met phantom armies and uncrossable streams until he vanished. Late in Fu Jian's reign he reappeared in Qingzhou. Fu Lang tracked him to a sea isle.
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王嘉
Wang Jia.
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王嘉，字子年，隴西安陽人也。 輕舉止，醜形貌，外若不足，而聰睿內明。 滑稽好語笑，不食五穀，不衣美麗，清虛服氣，不與世人交遊。 隱于東陽穀，鑿崖穴居，弟子受業者數百人，亦皆穴處。 石季龍之末，棄其徒眾，至長安，潛隱於終南山，結庵廬而止。 門人聞而復隨之，乃遷於倒獸山。 苻堅累徵不起，公侯已下咸躬往參詣，好尚之士無不師宗之。 問其當世事者，皆隨問而對。 好為譬喻，狀如戲調； 言未然之事，辭如讖記，當時鮮能曉之，事過皆驗。
Wang Jia, courtesy name Zinian, came from Anyang in Longxi. He seemed a buffoon but was inwardly brilliant. He jested, shunned grain and silk, fed on qi, and shunned society. He and hundreds of pupils lived in cliff caves in Dongyang valley. Late under Shi Hu he abandoned followers, hid on Zhongnan near Chang'an, and built a hut. Pupils found him so he moved to Mount Daoshou. Fu Jian's summons failed; nobles visited in person and scholars revered him. He answered every question about current events. He spoke in riddling jest; his future tense lines read like cryptic verse—few understood until they came true.
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堅將南征，遣使者問之。 嘉曰：「金剛火強。」 乃乘使者馬，正衣冠，徐徐東行數百步，而策馬馳反，脫衣服，棄冠履而歸，下馬踞床，一無所言。 使者還告，堅不語，復遣問之，曰：「吾世祚云何？」 嘉曰：「未央。」 咸以為吉。 明年癸未，敗於淮南，所謂未年而有殃也。 人侯之者，至心則見之，不至心則隱形不見。 衣服在架，履杖猶存，或欲取其衣者，終不及，企而取之，衣架逾高，而屋亦不大，覆杖諸物亦如之。
Before Fu Jian's southern campaign he sent an envoy to Wang Jia. Jia said, "Vajra, fire strong." He borrowed the envoy's horse, rode east slowly, galloped back stripping clothes and shoes, then sat mute on a couch. The envoy returned and reported; Jian did not speak; again he sent to ask, saying, "How is my dynastic fortune?" Jia said, "Not yet ended." Courtiers mistook it for good news. Next year gui-wei he lost at Fei River—the wordplay meant disaster in the wei year, not endless blessing. Earnest visitors saw him; half-hearted seekers found him invisible. His robe and staff on a rack eluded grasp—stretching for them raised the rack while the hut stayed small.
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姚萇之入長安，禮嘉如苻堅故事，逼以自隨，每事諮之。 萇既與苻登相持，問嘉曰：「吾得殺苻登定天下不？」 嘉曰：「略得之。」 萇怒曰：「得當云得，何略之有！」 遂斬之。 先此，釋道安謂嘉曰：「世故方殷，可以行矣。」 嘉答曰：「卿其先行，吾負債未果去。」 俄而道安亡，至是而嘉戮死，所謂「負債」者也。 苻登聞嘉死，設壇哭之，贈太師，諡曰文。 及萇死，萇子興字子略方殺登，「略得」之謂也。 嘉之死日，人有隴上見之。 其所造《牽三歌讖》，事過皆驗，累世猶傳之。 又著《拾遺錄》十卷，其記事多詭怪，今行於世。
Yao Chang honored him as Fu Jian had and kept him for counsel. After Chang was locked with Fu Deng in stalemate, he asked Jia, "Can I kill Fu Deng and settle All-under-Heaven?" Jia said, "Lue obtains it." Chang angrily said, "If you obtain, say obtain—what is this 'lue'!" He had Wang Jia beheaded. Before this, Shi Daoan had said to Jia, "The world's troubles are just now thick—you may go." Jia answered, "You ought to go first; I have a debt unpaid and cannot yet leave." Before long Daoan died; when it came to this Jia was executed—this is what is called 'debt.' Fu Deng mourned Wang Jia as Grand Preceptor Wen. When Chang died, Chang's son Xing, courtesy name Zilue, thereupon killed Deng—this is what 'lue de' meant. The day he died, witnesses saw him alive on the Long plateau. His Qiansange prophecy verses all came true and circulated for generations. His ten-scroll Records of Gathered Remains of odd events still circulates.
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僧涉
Seng She.
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僧涉者，西域人也，不知何姓。 少為沙門，苻堅時入長安。 虛靜服氣，不食五穀，日能行五百里，言未然之事，驗若指掌。 能以秘祝下神龍，每旱，堅常使之咒龍請雨。 俄而龍下缽中，天輒大雨，堅及群臣親就缽觀之。 卒于長安。 後大旱移時，苻堅歎曰：「涉公若在，豈憂此乎！」
Monk She came from the west; his surname was unknown. He tonsured young and reached Chang'an under Fu Jian. He fasted on qi, walked five hundred li a day, and foretold the future with clarity. Secret spells drew dragons into bowls whenever drought struck. Dragons entered his bowl and rain followed while Fu Jian and courtiers watched. He died in Chang'an. Later after long drought Fu Jian sighed, "If Lord She were still here, how would I worry about this!"
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郭黁
Guo Wu.
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郭黁，西平人也。 少明《老》《易》，仕郡主簿。 張天錫末年，苻氏每有西伐之問，太守趙凝使黁筮之，黁曰：「若郡內二月十五日失囚者，東軍當至，涼祚必終。」 凝乃申約屬縣。 至十五日，鮮卑折掘送馬於凝，凝怒其非駿，幽之內廄，鮮卑懼而夜遁。 凝以告黁，黁曰：「是也。 國家將亡，不可復振。」
Guo Wu came from Xiping. He mastered Laozi and Changes and served as chief clerk. In the last years of Zhang Tiansui, whenever the Fu clan had word of a western campaign, Prefect Zhao Ning had Wu divine by milfoil; Wu said, "If on the fifteenth day of the second month the commandery loses a prisoner, the eastern army will arrive and Liang's mandate will surely end." Zhao Ning alerted every county. On the day Xianbei herders delivered horses Zhao Ning jailed them for poor stock and they broke out by night. Ning reported to Wu; Wu said, "It is so. The state is about to perish; it cannot be revived."
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苻堅末，當陽門震，刺史梁熙問黁曰：「其祥安在？」 黁曰：「為四夷之事也。 當有外國二王來朝主上，一當反國，一死此城。」 歲餘而鄯善及前部王朝於苻堅，西歸，鄯善王死于姑臧。
At the end of Fu Jian's reign the Dangyang Gate quaked; Inspector Liang Xi asked Wu, "Where lies its portent?" Wu said, "It is a matter of the four barbarians. There ought to be two foreign kings who come to court to the lord; one ought to return to his state, one die in this city." A year later Shanshan and Front-Department kings paid court; Shanshan's king died at Guzang on the way west.
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呂光之王河西也，西海太守王楨叛，黁勸光襲之。 光之左丞呂寶曰：「千里襲人，自昔所難，況王者之師天下所聞，何可僥倖以邀成功！ 黁不可從，誤人大事。」 黁曰：「若其不捷，黁自伏鈇鉞之誅。 如其克也，左丞為無謀矣。」 光從而克之。 光比之京管，常參帷幄密謀。
When Lu Guang held Hexi, rebel Wang Zhen drew Guo Wu's advice to attack. Guang's left aide Lu Bao said, "A thousand-li raid on others has from old been hard—how much more a royal host famed through the realm—how can you hazard luck to beg success! Wu must not be followed—it will ruin the great affair." Wu said, "If it is not victorious, Wu himself will submit to axe and halberd execution. If it conquers, the left aide will have been without strategy." Lu Guang attacked and won. Lu Guang likened him to Guan Zhong and kept him in secret council.
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光將伐乞伏乾歸，黁諫曰：「今太白未出，不宜行師，往必無功，終當覆敗。」 太史令賈曜以為必有秦隴之地。 及克金城，光使曜詰黁，黁密謂光曰：「昨有流星東墮，當有伏屍死將，雖得此城，憂在不守。 正月上旬，河冰將解，若不早渡，恐有大變。」 後二日而敗問至，光引軍渡河訖，冰泮。 時人服其神驗。 光以黁為散騎常侍、太常。
When Guang was about to campaign against Qifu Gangui, Wu remonstrated, saying, "Now the Great White has not yet risen; it is not fitting to move the army; if you go you will surely accomplish nothing and in the end will overturn in defeat." Grand astrologer Jia Yao predicted victory in Qin and Long. When they took Jincheng, Guang sent Yao to question Wu; Wu secretly told Guang, "Yesterday there was a shooting star falling east—there ought to be corpses strewn and a general dead; although you obtain this city, the worry lies in not holding it. In the first ten days of the first month the river ice will break; if you do not ford early, I fear a great change." Two days later defeat news came; Lu Guang finished crossing as the ice broke. Contemporaries marveled at his accuracy. Lu Guang named him supernumerary attendant and grand master of ceremonies.
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黁後以光年老，知其將敗，遂與光僕射王祥起兵作亂。 百姓聞黁起兵，咸以聖人起事，事無不成，故相率從之如不及。 黁以為代呂者王，乃推王乞基為主。 後呂隆降姚興，興以王尚為涼州刺史，終如黁言。 黁之與光相持也，逃人稱呂統病死，黁曰：「未也，光、統之命盡在一時。」 黁後統死三日而光死。 黁嘗曰：「涼州謙光殿后當有索頭鮮卑居之。」 終於禿髮傉檀、沮渠蒙遜迭據姑臧。 黁性褊酷，不為士庶所附。 戰敗，奔乞伏乾歸。 乾歸敗，入姚興。 黁以滅姚者晉，遂將妻子南奔，為追兵所殺也。
Seeing Lu Guang aged and doomed, Guo Wu rebelled with steward Wang Xiang. The people thought a sage led a sure revolt and flocked to him. He read the prophecy "Wang replaces Lu" and raised Wang Qiji as figurehead. When Lu Long yielded to Yao Xing, Wang Shang became Liangzhou governor—fulfilling Guo Wu's line. When Wu and Guang were locked in stalemate, a fugitive said Lu Tong had died of illness; Wu said, "Not yet; Guang's and Tong's fates end at the same moment." Lu Tong died; three days later Lu Guang died. Wu once said, "Behind Liangzhou's Modest Light Hall there will be Tuoba Xianbei dwelling." Tufa Rutan and Juqu Mengxun later seized Guzang in turn. Guo Wu was harsh and won little loyalty. He fled to Qifu Gangui after defeat. After Gangui fell he joined Yao Xing. Believing Jin would destroy Yao, he fled south with family and died under pursuit.
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鳩摩羅什
Kumarajiva.
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鳩摩羅什，天竺人也。 世為國相。 父鳩摩羅炎，聰懿有大節，將嗣相位，乃辭避出家，東渡蔥嶺。 龜茲王聞其名，郊迎之，請為國師。 王有妹，年二十，才悟明敏，諸國交娉，並不許，及見炎，心欲當之，王乃逼以妻焉。 既而羅什在胎，其母慧解倍常。 及年七歲，母遂與俱出家。
Kumarajiva came from India. His clan had long served as chief ministers. His father Kumarayana renounced succession as minister, took orders, and crossed the Pamirs east. Kucha's king welcomed him as national preceptor. The princess, wooed by many realms, chose Kumarayana; the king compelled their marriage. His mother grew doubly wise while carrying him. At seven mother and son both ordained.
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羅什從師受經，日誦千偈，偈有三十二字，凡三萬二千言，義亦自通。 年十二，其母攜到沙勒，國王甚重之，遂停沙勒一年。 博覽五明諸論及陰陽星算，莫不必盡，妙達吉凶，言若符契。 為性率達，不拘小檢，修行者頗共疑之。 然羅什自得於心，未嘗介意，專以大乘為化，諸學者皆共師焉。 年二十，龜茲王迎之還國，廣說諸經，四遠學徒莫之能抗。
He memorized a thousand thirty-two-character gathas daily—thirty-two thousand graphs—and grasped their sense. At twelve he visited Shule and stayed a year, honored by the king. He mastered the five sciences, astrology, and omens with uncanny accuracy. His easy manner drew suspicion from ascetics. He ignored critics and taught Mahayana to universal acclaim. At twenty Kucha recalled him to preach; none could match his learning.
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有頃，羅什母辭龜茲王往天竺，留羅什住，謂之曰：「方等深教，不可思議，傳之東土，惟爾之力。 但於汝無利，其可如何？」 什曰：「必使大化流傳，雖苦而無恨。」 母至天竺，道成，進登第三果。 西域諸國咸伏羅什神俊，每至講說，諸王皆長跪坐側，令羅什踐而登焉。 苻堅聞之，密有迎羅什之意。 會太史奏云：「有星見外國分野，當有大智入輔中國。」 堅曰：「朕聞西域有鳩摩羅什，將非此邪？」 乃遣驍騎將軍呂光等率兵七萬，西伐龜茲，謂光曰：「若獲羅什，即馳驛送之。」 光軍未至，羅什謂龜茲王白純曰：「國運衰矣，當有勍敵從日下來，宜恭承之，勿抗其鋒。」 純不從，出兵距戰，光遂破之，乃獲羅什。 光見其年齒尚少，以凡人戲之，強妻以龜茲王女，羅什距而不受，辭甚苦至。 光曰：「道士之操不逾先父，何所固辭？」 乃飲以醇酒，同閉密室。 羅什被逼，遂妻之。 光還，中路置軍於山下，將士已休，羅什曰：「在此必狼狽，宜徙軍隴上。」 光不納。 至夜，果大雨，洪潦暴起，水深數丈，死者數千人，光密異之。 光欲留王西國，羅什謂光曰：「此凶亡之地，不宜淹留，中路自有福地可居。」 光還至涼州，聞苻堅已為姚萇所害，於是竊號河右。 屬姑臧大風，羅什曰：「不祥之風當有奸叛，然不勞自定也。」 俄而有叛者，尋皆殄滅。
Before long Kumarajiva's mother took leave of the king of Kucha to go to Tianzhu, leaving Kumarajiva behind, telling him, "The profound teachings of the Great Equalities are beyond thought; to transmit them to the eastern lands is only through your strength. Yet for you there is no benefit—what can be done?" He said, "If it must make the great teaching flow and spread, though suffering there is no regret." In India his mother reached the third fruit of arhatship. Western kings knelt for him to step on their backs mounting the dais. Fu Jian resolved to fetch him. Just then the grand astrologer memorialized, saying, "There is a star appearing in the foreign field division—there ought to be a great wisdom who enters and aids the Middle Kingdom." Jian said, "I have heard that in the Western Regions there is Kumarajiva—could it not be this?" Thereupon he dispatched General Who Charges Cavalry Lu Guang and others leading seventy thousand troops to campaign west against Kucha, telling Guang, "If you obtain Kumarajiva, immediately send him post-haste." Before Guang's army arrived, Kumarajiva told the king of Kucha, Bai Chun, "The state's fortune declines; there will be a mighty foe coming from beneath the sun—you ought respectfully to receive him; do not resist his edge." Bai Chun fought and lost; Lu Guang took the monk. Lu Guang mocked his youth, forced a royal bride on him; he refused bitterly. Guang said, "A monk's conduct does not surpass your late father's—why so stubborn a refusal?" Lu Guang drunk him and locked him with the princess. Coerced, Kumarajiva wed her. On the return, midway Guang encamped the army beneath a mountain; generals and soldiers had already rested; Kumarajiva said, "Here we are sure to be in straits—you ought to move the army onto the Long upland." Lu Guang ignored him. Night brought a deluge that drowned thousands; Lu Guang marveled. Guang wished to keep the king in the western states; Kumarajiva told Guang, "This is a land of violent death—not fitting to linger; midway on the road there is naturally a blessed place to dwell." Reaching Liangzhou, Lu Guang learned Fu Jian was dead and seized the Hexi throne. When a great wind struck Guzang, Kumarajiva said, "This ill wind means there will be treasonous rebellion, yet without labor it will settle of itself." Rebels rose and were crushed.
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沮渠蒙遜先推建康太守段業為主，光遣其子纂率眾討之。 時論謂業等烏合，纂有威聲，勢必全克。 光以訪羅什，答曰：「此行未見其利。」 既而纂敗于合黎，俄又郭黁起兵，纂棄大軍輕還，復為黁所敗，僅以身免。
Juqu Mengxun raised Duan Ye; Lu Guang sent Lu Zuan against them. Court opinion expected Lu Zuan's easy victory. Guang consulted Kumarajiva; he answered, "This march does not yet show its gain." Lu Zuan lost at Heli, fled from Guo Wu's revolt, and barely survived.
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中書監張資病，光博營救療。 有外國道人羅叉，雲能差資病。 光喜，給賜甚重。 羅什知叉誑詐，告資曰：「叉不能為益，徒煩費耳。 冥運雖隱，可以事試也。」 乃以五色絲作繩結之，燒為灰末，投水中，灰若出水還成繩者，病不可愈。 須臾，灰聚浮出，復為繩，叉療果無效，少日資亡。
Lu Guang spared no effort to heal Zhang Zi. A foreign monk Luocha claimed a cure. Lu Guang showered Luocha with gifts. Kumarajiva knew Luocha was deceitful; he told Zi, "Luocha cannot bring benefit—only vexation and expense. Though dark fate is hidden, it can be tested by an affair." He burned a knotted five-color silk cord to ash and floated it—if it reknotted in water, death was certain. The ash re-formed the rope; Luocha failed; Zhang Zi soon died.
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頃之，光死，纂立。 有豬生子，一身三頭。 龍出東箱井中，於殿前蟠臥，比旦失之。 纂以為美瑞，號其殿為龍翔殿。 俄而有黑龍升于當陽九宮門，纂改九宮門為龍興門。 羅什曰：「比日潛龍出遊，豕妖表異，龍者陰類，出入有時，而今屢見，則為災眚，必有下人謀上之變。 宜克己修德，以答天戒。」 纂不納，後果為呂超所殺。
Lu Guang died; Lu Zuan ruled. A sow farrowed a three-headed piglet. A dragon left the east well, coiled in the court, vanished by dawn. Lu Zuan called it an omen and renamed his hall Dragon Soaring. A black dragon at Nine Palaces gate brought the name Dragon Rising. Kumarajiva said, "These days lurking dragons roam abroad; the pig monster shows prodigy—dragons are yin in kind, coming and going with seasons; now they are repeatedly seen, then they are calamity misfortune—there must be change of a subordinate plotting against superiors. You ought to restrain the self and cultivate virtue to answer heaven's warning." Lu Zuan ignored him and died at Lu Chao's hands.
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羅什之在涼州積年，呂光父子既不弘道，故蘊其深解，無所宣化。 姚興遣姚碩德西伐，破呂隆，乃迎羅什，待以國師之禮，仍使入西明閣及逍遙園，譯出眾經。 羅什多所暗誦，無不究其義旨，既覽舊經多有紕繆，於是興使沙門僧睿、僧肇等八百餘人傳受其旨，更出經論，凡三百餘卷。 沙門慧睿才識高明，常隨羅什傳寫，羅什每為慧睿論西方辭體，商略同異，云：「天竺國俗甚重文制，其宮商體韻，經入管弦為善。 凡覲國王，必有贊德，經中偈頌，皆其式也。」 羅什雅好大乘，志在敷演，常歎曰：「吾若著筆作大乘阿毗曇，非迦旃子比也。 今深識者既寡，將何所論！」 惟為姚興著《實相論》二卷，興奉之若神。
Under Lu Guang's irreligious court he hid his deepest learning. Yao Xing destroyed Later Liang, welcomed Kumarajiva as national teacher, and set him translating in Chang'an gardens. He retranslated more than three hundred scrolls with eight hundred assistants, correcting old errors. The shramana Hui Rui, talented and bright, constantly followed Kumarajiva in transcription; Kumarajiva often for Hui Rui discussed western phrasing, weighing sameness and difference, saying, "The custom of the Tianzhu state greatly esteems literary form; its musical tones and rhymes, when sutras enter pipes and strings, are excellent. Whenever one meets a king, there must be praise of virtue; the gathas in sutras are all models of this." Kumarajiva elegantly loved the Great Vehicle; his intent lay in spreading exposition; he often sighed, "If I took brush to compose a Mahayana Abhidharma, I would not be matched by Katyayaniputra. Now those with deep knowledge are few—with whom shall I discuss!" He wrote two fascicles on true marks for Yao Xing alone.
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嘗講經於草堂寺，興及朝臣、大德沙門千有餘人肅容觀聽，羅什忽下高坐，謂興曰：「有二小兒登吾肩，欲鄣須婦人。」 興乃召宮女進之，一交而生二子焉。 興嘗謂羅什曰：「大師聽明超悟，天下莫二，何可使法種少嗣。」 遂以伎女十人，逼令受之。 爾後不住僧坊，別立解舍。 諸僧多效之。 什乃聚針盈缽，引諸僧謂之曰：「若能見效食此者，乃可畜室耳。」 因舉匕進針，與常食不別，諸僧愧服乃止。
Once lecturing at Caotang Monastery, Xing and court ministers and great-virtue shramanas more than a thousand with solemn bearing watched and listened; Kumarajiva suddenly stepped down from the high seat and told Xing, "There are two boys climbing my shoulders; they want to block—must have women." Yao Xing sent palace ladies; he fathered twin sons. Xing once told Kumarajiva, "Master, your brilliance and penetration surpass the realm—none is second; how can we allow the dharma seed so few in heirs." He forced ten courtesans on the monk. Kumarajiva thereafter lived apart from the cloister in a private compound. Many monks copied his householding. Thereupon he gathered needles filling a bowl, led the various monks and told them, "If you can imitate me and eat these, then you may keep wives." He ate them like rice until the monks, shamed, dropped the pretense.
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杯渡比丘在彭城，聞羅什在長安，乃歎曰：「吾與此子戲，別三百餘年，相見杳然未期，遲有遇于來生耳。」 羅什未終少日，覺四大不愈，乃口出三番神咒，令外國弟子誦之以自救，未及致力，轉覺危殆，於是力疾與眾僧告別曰：「因法相遇，殊未盡心，方復後世，惻愴可言。」 死于長安。 姚興於逍遙園依外國法以火焚屍，薪滅形碎，惟舌不爛。
The bhikshu Beidu in Pengcheng, hearing Kumarajiva was in Chang'an, then sighed, "I played with this fellow; parted more than three hundred years—meeting again is dim without date; slowly there may be meeting in a later life." Kumarajiva, not yet ended within a few days, felt the four great elements not recovering; thereupon he uttered three rounds of spirit spells, ordering foreign disciples to recite them to save himself; before he could exert effort, he turned and felt peril; therefore with strained illness he took leave of the assembly of monks, saying, "Through the dharma we met—truly not yet having exhausted the heart; only in a later life—how bitterly one may speak." He died in Chang'an. Yao Xing cremated him by Indian rite; only his tongue survived the fire.
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僧曇霍
Seng Tanhuo.
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沙門曇霍者，不知何許人也。 禿髮傉檀時從河南來，持一錫杖，令人跪曰：「此是般若眼，奉之可以得道。」 時人咸異之。 或遺以衣服，受而投之於河，後日以還其本主，衣無所汙。 行步如風雲，言人死生貴賤無毫釐之差。 人或藏其錫杖，曇霍大哭數聲，閉目須臾，起而取之，咸奇其神異，莫能測也。 每謂傉檀曰：「若能安坐無為，則天下可定，祚胤克昌，如其窮兵好殺，禍將及己。」 傉檀不能從。 傉檀女病甚，請救療，曇霍曰：「人之生死自有定期，聖人亦不能轉禍為福，曇霍安能延命邪！ 正可知早晚耳。」 傉檀固請之。 時後宮門閉，曇霍曰：急開後門，及開門則生，不及則死。」 傉檀命開之，不及而死。 後兵亂，不知所在也。
Monk Tanhuo's origin was unknown. At the time of Tufa Rutan he came from Henan holding one tin staff, making people kneel and saying, "This is the eye of prajna; honoring it can obtain the Way." All thought him strange. Gifts of clothing he cast in the river; garments returned spotless to donors. He strode like wind, predicting life and death without fault. If his staff was hidden, he wailed briefly, then walked straight to its hiding place. He often told Rutan, "If you can sit peacefully and do nothing, then All-under-Heaven can be settled, your fortune and heirs can flourish; if instead you exhaust armies and love killing, calamity will reach yourself." Rutan refused the counsel. Rutan's daughter was gravely ill; he requested cure; Tanhuo said, "Men's life and death each have a fixed term; even sages cannot turn misfortune into fortune—how can Tanhuo extend life! Only early or late can be known." Rutan pressed him. At the time the rear palace gate was closed; Tanhuo said, "Open the rear gate in haste—when the gate opens she lives; if it does not open in time she dies." The gate opened too late; the princess died. War swallowed him without trace.
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台產
Tai Chan.
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台產，字國俊，上洛人，漢侍中崇之後也。 少專京氏《易》，善圖讖、秘緯、天文、洛書、風角、星算、六日七分之學，尤善望氣、占候、推步之術。 隱居商洛南山，兼善經學，泛情教授，不交當世。 劉曜時，災異特甚，命公卿各舉博識直言之士一人。 其大司空劉均舉產。 曜親臨東堂，遣中黃門策問之，產極言其故。 曜覽而嘉之，引見，訪以政事。 產流涕歔欷，具陳災變之禍，政化之闕，辭甚懇至。 曜改容禮之，署為博士祭酒、諫議大夫，領太史令。 至明年而其言皆驗，曜彌重之，轉太中大夫，歲中三遷。 歷位尚書、光祿大夫、太子少師，位特進，金章紫綬，爵關中侯。
Tai Chan, courtesy name Guojun, came from Shangluo, descended from Han's Tai Chong. He mastered Jing Fang's Changes, apocrypha, astronomy, Luo charts, wind-angle, and calendrical arts, especially qi-watching. He taught classics in hermitage on Shangluo South Mountain, shunning office. Liu Yao's reign brought dire omens; he ordered each minister to nominate a truth-telling scholar. Grand minister of works Liu Jun nominated Tai Chan. Liu Yao questioned him at the east hall; Tai Chan explained every portent. Liu Yao praised his memorials and sought policy advice. Tai Chan wept, listing omens and policy failures with brutal honesty. Liu Yao honored him as erudite libationer, remonstrance grandee, and grand astrologer. His forecasts proved within the year; Liu Yao promoted him thrice. He rose to minister, splendid brightness grandee, junior tutor, specially advanced, golden seal and purple ribbon, marquis within the passes.
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史評
Historians' appraisal.
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史臣曰：陳戴等諸子並該洽墳典，研精數術，究推步之幽微，窮陰陽之秘奧，雖前代京管，何以加之！ 郭黁知有晉之亡姚，去姚以歸晉，追兵奄及，致斃中途，斯則遠見秋毫，不能近知目睫。 澄什爰自遐裔，來游諸夏。 什既兆見星象，澄乃驅役鬼神，並通幽洞冥，垂文闡教，諒見珍於道藝，非取貴於他山，姚石奉之若神，良有以也。 鮑、吳、王、幸等或假靈道訣，或受教神方，遂能厭勝禳災，隱文彰義，雖獲譏於妖妄，頗有益於世用者焉。 然而碩學通人，未宜枉轡。
The annalists praise Chen Xun, Dai Yang, and their peers for mastering the canon and cosmology beyond even Jing Fang and Guan Zhong. Guo Wu foresaw Jin ending Yao yet died fleeing—sharp on distant stars, blind to his own peril. Fotucheng and Kumarajiva came from afar to teach China. One read stars, the other mastered spirits; both taught scripture—Yao and Shi honored their arts, not mere foreign curiosities, with cause. Bao Jing, Wu Meng, Wang Jia, and Xing Ling used charms to help the world despite charges of sorcery. True scholars should not blindly follow such paths.
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贊曰：《傳》敘災祥，《書》稱龜筮。 應如影響，葉若符契。 怪力亂神，詭時惑世。 崇尚弗已，必致流弊。
The verse says: the Documents record omens; the Canon praises tortoise and yarrow. They answer like shadow and echo; align like tallies matched. Uncanny powers and unruly spirits deceive the age and bewilder the world. Endless veneration of such arts invites lasting harm.