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Overview The translated histories identify Ban Si as a scholar. This record brings together 5 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
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Ban Si
班嗣
Ban Si
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Ban Si
嗣
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Si
嗣
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Book of Han, Chapter 117 Volume 100a: Afterword and Family History 1 · 5 passages
斿亦早卒，有子曰嗣，顯名當世。
Ban You died young as well, leaving a son Si who won renown in that generation.
彪字叔皮，幼與從兄嗣共遊學，家有賜書，內足於財，好古之士自遠方至，父黨揚子雲以下莫不造門。
Ban Biao, styled Shuipi, studied abroad with his cousin Ban Si while the household enjoyed imperial book grants and deep coffers, drawing classicists from afar so that even Yang Xiong and his father's circle beat a path to their door.
嗣雖修儒學，然貴老嚴之術。
Ban Si pursued Confucian texts yet revered the Daoist teachings of Laozi and Yan Junping.
桓生欲借其書，嗣報曰：「若夫嚴子者，絕聖棄智，修生保真，清虛澹泊，歸之自然，獨師友造化，而不為世俗所役者也。
When Huan Sheng wished to borrow his books, Ban Si replied, "As for Master Yan, he cut off sagehood and discarded cleverness, cultivated life and guarded the genuine, was clear, empty, and still, and returned to the natural; he took only creation as teacher and friend and was not enslaved by the vulgar world.
嗣之行己持論如此。
Such was Ban Si's conduct and the tone of his debate.