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Overview The translated histories identify Zimo as a named individual. 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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Zimo
子墨
Zimo
Title
guest minister Zimo
子墨客卿
Alternate name
Ink Guest
墨客
Personal name
Zimo
子墨
Identity
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Book of Han, Chapter 99 Volume 87b: Yang Xiong 2 · 5 passages
雄從至射熊館，還，上《長楊賦》，聊因筆墨之成文章，故借翰林以為主人，子墨為客卿以風。
Yang Xiong had gone along to the lodge; when he came back he submitted his "Rhapsody on Changyang," casting the piece as a dialogue between a Hanlin host and a guest named Zimo so that counsel could be offered without blunt memorial rhetoric.
子墨客卿問於翰林主人曰：「蓋聞聖主之養民也，仁沾而恩洽，動不為身。
The guest Zimo said to the Hanlin host: "I have heard that when a sage ruler nurtures the people, benevolence soaks them and grace runs deep, and that he acts for the realm, not for himself.
客曰：「唯，唯。」
The guest murmured, "Yes—yes."
酌允鑠，餚樂胥，聽廟中之雍雍，受神人之福祜；
Cups brim with fine ale, dishes delight the guests, the ancestral hall fills with measured resonance, and sovereign and people alike receive heaven’s favor.
言未卒，墨客降席再拜稽首曰：「大哉體乎！
Before the host had finished, Zimo left his cushion, bowed twice, and touched his forehead to the floor: "What a vast design!