Baling Commandant (霸陵尉)

Overview

The translated histories identify Baling Commandant as an official. This record brings together 3 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese
Personal	Baling Commandant	霸陵尉
Title	Baling duty officer	霸陵尉
Title	The commandant	尉
Title	the duty officer

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Title only
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · shiji:109:s0063

Roles

Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: beheaded / 斬 · Authority Person Id: Li Guang (李廣)
Explicit · shiji:109:s0069

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 家居數歲 · Western Interval: Start: BC 129 · End: BC 123
Explicit · shiji:109:s0063

References in the histories

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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 109Biography of General Li · 3 passages

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還至霸陵亭，霸陵尉醉，呵止廣。 On the way back, when they reached the Baling postal station, the duty officer, who was drunk, shouted at Guang to halt.

尉曰：「今將軍尚不得夜行，何乃故也！」 The commandant said, "Even a current general may not travel at night. How much less an old one!"

廣即請霸陵尉與俱，至軍而斬之。 Guang immediately requested that the Baling duty officer accompany him to his post, and upon reaching the army, had the man beheaded.