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205

the Age of Jade
”: Chang 1989, p. 42.
206

During the reign
”: Lü Buwei,
Springs and Autumns of Mr. Lü
, p. 239.
210

They tilted
”:
Classic of Odes
, translated in Waley 1937, no. 240.
213

Crackmaking
”:
Jiaguwen heji
6,664 front, translated in de Bary and Bloom 1999, p. 12.
216

the watchers
”: Pylos tablet An 657, translated in Chadwick 1987, pp. 40–42.
216

it is a matter
” and “the enemy’s ships”: Ugarit tablets RS 20.212 and 18.147, translated in Astour 1965, p. 255.
216

The foreign countries
” etc.: Ramses III, Medinet Habu inscription, translated in Pritchard 1969, pp. 262–63.
217

The Land
”: Mursili II, Prayer to the Sun Goddess (
CTH
376), translated in Pritchard 1969, p. 396.
218

wasted, bare
”: Merneptah, Poetical Stela, translated in Lichtheim 1973–80, vol. II, p. 77.
219

In those days
”: Judges 21.25, translated in
New Oxford Annotated Bible
, p. 331 OT.
222

The war chariots
”: “Great brightness,”
Classic of Odes
, translated in Waley 1937, no. 246.
222

Children of the Sun
”: G. E. Smith 1915.

5. NECK AND NECK

231

I come
”:
Mencius
7B/4, translated in Lau 2003, p. 158.
232

In the evening
”:
Mai zun
inscription, translated in Shaughnessy 1991, p. 207.
232

The heavens
”:
Bamboo Annals
4.4.5, translated in Legge 1865, Prolegomena p. 149.
233

Cheap iron
”: Childe 1942, p. 183.
235

I brought back
”: Ashur-dan II, translated in Grayson 1991, pp. 134–35.
237

I built a tower
”: Ashurnasirpal II, translated in Luckenbill 1926, paragraphs 433, 445, 455, 472.
238

If such a disruption
”: Bradley 1999, p. 15.
239

Phoenician men
”: Homer,
Odyssey
15.415–16.
243

King You
”: Sima Qian,
Basic Annals
4.148, from the translation in Nienhauser 1994, p. 74.
246
like a wolf
: paraphrased from Lord Byron, “The Destruction of Sennacherib” (1815), stanza 1.
249

my shepherd
”: Isaiah 44.28–45.1, translated in
New Oxford Annotated Bible
, p. 927 OT.
250

the Persians
”: Herodotus 3.89.
252

Duke Ling
”:
Zuozhuan
, Duke Xuan 2nd year, translated in Watson 1989, p. 76.
254

Would that I
”: Hesiod,
Works and Days
, lines 174–76, 197–201.
255

Man, as we
”: Jaspers 1953, p. 1.
255

The more … in speaking
”: Confucius,
Analects
9.11 and 12.3, translated in R. Dawson 1993, pp. 32, 44.
255

it’s beyond me
”: Plato,
Republic
506e.
255

The Way
”: Laozi,
Daodejing
1, translated in de Bary and Bloom 1999, pp. 79–80.
257

I transmit
” and “To subdue oneself”: Confucius,
Analects
7.1, 12.1, 7.30, translated in R. Dawson 1993, pp. 24, 44, 26.
257

act like beggars
” and “Regard another’s state”:
Mozi
39.2 and 15.11–15, translated in Bloodworth and Bloodworth 2004, p. 31.
258

For three years
,” “You can’t bear,” and “one of the good” etc.:
Zhuangzi
7, 26, 33, translated in Palmer
et al.
2006, pp. 63–64, 239, 299–300.
259

the enrichment
,” “If in enterprises,” and “A state”:
Book of Lord Shang
8.8 and 20, translated in Duyvendak 1928.
263

Qin has the same
” and “It has the heart”:
Stratagems of the Warring States
(
Zhanguoce
) chapter 24, p. 869, translated in M. Lewis 2007, p. 40.
263

Who can be
”: Polybius 1.1.
265

[Lord Shang] commanded
”: Sima Qian,
Shi ji
68, p. 2230, translated in M. Lewis 2007, p. 30.
266

To jaw-jaw
”: Winston Churchill, speech at the White House, June 26, 1954, published in
New York Times
, June 27, 1954, p. 1.
266

Qin is the
”:
Stratagems of the Warring States
(
Zhanguoce
), chapter 24, p. 869, translated in M. Lewis 2007, p. 40.
267

We are the
”: cited from Paludan 1998, p. 17.
269

Remember, you are a mortal
”: Tertullian,
Apology
33; Jerome,
Letters
39.2.8 (with discussion in Beard 2007, pp. 85–92).
270

The Roman custom
”: Polybius 10.15.
273

dispatched his adjutant
”: Fan Ye,
History of the Later Han
, cited from Leslie and Gardiner 1996, p. 43.
274

In a workshop
,” “An inner room,” and “I casually produced”: Wheeler 1955, pp. 170–73.
276

They have squat bodies
”: Ammianus Marcellinus,
Histories
31.2.
277

violence and neglect
”: Herodotus 1.106.
278

Glutton as you are
”: Herodotus 1.212.

6. DECLINE AND FALL

280

All is for
”: Voltaire,
Candide
(1759), chapter 1 and passim.
280

When the emperor
”: Han dynasty poet, cited from Lovell 2006, p. 83.
280

For the eternal
”: Aelius Aristides,
To Rome
29, 109.
282

As things stand
”: Sima Qian,
Shi ji
48, translated in Watson 1993, pp. 2–3.
284

All happy families
”: Leo Tolstoy,
Anna Karenina
(1875), part I, chapter 1, translation from
http://www.gutenberg.org
.
286

I think
”: Suetonius,
Life of Vespasian
23.
286

All right then
”:
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
(1979).
293
stone chambers, etc
.: Chuci, cited from Paludan 1998, p. 49.
295

Columbian Exchange
”: Crosby 1972.
295

It appears
”: cited in Crosby 2004, p. 215.
297

Recently there have been
”: He Gong, cited from McNeill 1976, p. 118.
300

If you lose
”: Wang Fu,
Discourses of a Hidden Man
, p. 258, translated in M. Lewis 2007, p. 259.
302

When a new
”: Fan Ye,
History of the Later Han
71, p. 2299, cited from Twitchett and Loewe 1986, p. 338.
302

The Han
”: Fan Ye,
History of the Later Han
72, p. 2322, cited from M. Lewis 2007, p. 262.
303

My armor
”: Cao Cao, cited from M. Lewis 2007, p. 28.
306

The dead
”:
History of the Jin Dynasty
, chapter 107, pp. 2791–92, translated in Graff 2002, p. 63.
307

awful revolution
”: Gibbon,
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
, vol. 3 (1781), subchapter “General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West.”
307

which will ever be
”: Gibbon,
Decline and Fall
, vol. 1 (1776), chapter 1.
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