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Overview The translated histories identify Sima Kan as a judge and 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 Pinyin
Personal
Sima Kan
司馬侃
Sīmǎ Kǎn
Given
Kan
侃
Kǎn
Title
Reviewing Secretary and Attendant Censor
治書侍御史
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Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 36 Volume 36 Biographies 17: Xie Chaozong, Liu Xiang · 3 passages
: 今月九日，治書侍御史臣司馬侃啓彈征北諮議參軍事謝超宗，稱「根性昏動，率心險放，悖議爽眞，囂辭犯實，親朋忍聞，衣冠掩目，輙收付廷尉法獄治罪」。
On the ninth of this month, your servant Sima Kan, Reviewing Secretary and Attendant Censor, submitted an impeachment against Xie Chaozong, advisory staff officer for the Campaigning-North command, saying: "His root nature is muddled and rash; his heart is dangerous and unrestrained; his perverse arguments violate truth and his clamorous words offend fact. Kin and friends cannot bear to hear him; gentlemen cover their eyes. He should at once be arrested, delivered to the law prison of the Chamberlain for Law Enforcement, and punished for his crime."
: 治書侍御史臣司馬侃雖承稟有由，而初無疑執，亦合及咎。
Your servant Sima Kan, Reviewing Secretary and Attendant Censor, had grounds for following orders, but at first he did not hold to any objection; he too should share the blame.
: 侃奏彈之始，臣等竝卽經見加推糾，案入主書，方被却檢，疏謬之諐，伏追震悚。
At Kan's first memorial we pressed at once; the chief secretariat returned it — we are filled with dread at the looseness.