| 《·》: | 文王生于岐周，卒于毕郢，西夷之人也。 |
| King Wen was born in Zhou by mount Qi, and died in Bi Ying - a man near the wild tribes on the west. |
| 《》: | 曰：“胥也，俾吴作乱，破楚入郢，鞭尸，藉馆，皆不由德。” |
| Yangzi said: Zi Xu helped the state of Wu make trouble, destroyed the state of Chu, entered the capital at Ying, whipped the corpse of King Ping and expelled the government officials —none of this was virtuous (de). |
| 《·》: | 子墨子闻之，起于齐，行十日十夜而至于郢，见公输盘。 |
| Mozi heard of it and set out from Qi. He walked ten days and ten nights and arrived at Ying. He saw Gong Shu Ban. |
| 《·》: | 夫南行者至于郢，北面而不见冥山，是何也？ |
| One, travelling to the south, comes (at last) to Ying, and there, standing with his face to the north, he does not see mount Ming. Why does he not see it? |
| 《·》: | 秦师至鄢郢，举若振槁，唐蔑死于垂沙，庄蹻发于内，楚分为五，地非不大也，兵非不众也，甲兵财用非不多也，战不胜，守不固，此无法之所生也。 |
| Yet when the army of Qin marched on Yen and Ying, it took those cities as easily as if it had been merely the shaking of a dead tree. Tang Mie met his death at Chui-sha, Zhuang Qiao rose in the interior, and Chu was divided into five parts. This was not because its territory was not large or that the population was not numerous, or that the armour and weapons and resources were not many, but the reason, that in fighting it did not win and in defending it was unable to hold its own, was due to the fact that it did not have law. |
| 《·》: | 然而秦师至，而鄢郢举，若振槁然，是岂无固塞隘阻也哉！ |
| 《·》: | 吴王阖庐与荆人战于柏举，大胜之，至于郢郊，五败荆人。 |
| 《·》: | 文王生于岐周，卒于毕郢，西夷之人也。 |
| 《·》: | 居二年，阖闾袭郢，昭王奔隋。 |
| 《·》: | 蔡昭公朝于楚，有美裘，楚令尹囊瓦求之，昭公不予，于是拘昭公于郢。 |
| 《》: | 左郢，字子行。 |
| 《·》: | 干木息偃以藩魏，包胥重蠒而存郢。 |
| 《·》: | 昔伊尹医殷，太公医周武王，百里医秦，申麃医郢，原季医晋，范蠡医越，管仲医齐，而五国霸。 |
| 《·》: | 秦与荆人战，大破荆，袭郢，取洞庭、五湖、江南，荆王君臣亡走，东服于陈 |
| 《》: | 惠王用张仪之计，拔三川之地，西并巴、蜀，北收上郡，南取汉中，包九夷，制鄢、郢，东据成皋之险，割膏腴之壤，遂散六国之从，使之西面事秦，功施到今。 |
| 《·》: | 十二，小郢，至德。 |
| 《·》: | 昔孙叔敖恬卧，而郢人无所害其锋。 |
| 《·》: | 墨子闻之，自鲁往，裂裳裹足，日夜不休，十日十夜而至于郢，见荆王曰：“臣北方之鄙人也，闻大王将攻宋，信有之乎？” |
| 《·》: | 周绝于秦，必入于郢矣。 |
| 《》: | 楚屈瑕将盟贰轸，郧人军于蒲骚，将与随，绞，州，蓼，伐楚师，莫敖患之，斗廉曰，郧人军其郊，必不诫，且日虞四邑之至也，君次于郊郢以御四邑，我以锐师宵加于郧，郧有虞心而恃其城，莫有斗志，若败郧师，四邑必离，莫敖曰，盍请济师于王，对曰，师克在和，不在众，商周之不敌，君之所闻也，成军以出，又何济焉，莫敖曰，卜之，对曰，卜以决疑，不疑何卜，遂败郧师于蒲骚，卒盟而还。 |
| 《·》: | 天舍其衷，楚师败绩，王去其国，遂至于郢。 |
| 《》: | 越王乃召相国范蠡、大夫种、大夫郢问曰：“孤欲以今日上明堂，临国政，专恩致令，以抚百姓，何日可矣？” |
| 《·》: | 即拘昭公南郢，三年然后归之。 |
| 《》: | 秦与荆人战，大破荆，袭郢，取洞庭、五都、江南 |
| 《·》: | 伍子胥挟弓干阖闾，破楚入郢，非负其兵而适吴也。 |
| 《·》: | 吴胜楚，遂入至郢。 |
| 《》: | 为是拘昭公于南郢，数年然后得归。 |
| 《》: | 将军子重谏曰：“南郢之与郑相去数千里，诸大夫死者数人，厮役扈养死者数百人，今君胜郑而不有，无乃失民臣之力乎？” |
| 《》: | 馀善以杀郢，威行国中，民多属，窃自立为王，繇王不能制。 |
| 《》: | 南拔鄢郢。 |
| 《》: | 愿公先定河北，然后修复旧京，南临楚郢，责王贡之不入。 |
| 《·》: | 四年十一月，于越子勾践卒，是为菼执，次鹿郢立。 |
| 《·》: | 发郢都而去闾兮，荒忽其焉极？ |
| 《·》: | 郢：故楚都。 |
| 《·》: | 三刃枝，南楚宛郢谓之匽戟。 |
| 《·》: | 常谓人曰：“昔匠石废斤于郢人，牙生辍弦于锺子，推己外求，良不虚也！” |
| 《·》: | 谓“郢州”为“永州”，元帝启报简文，简文云：‘庚辰吴入，遂成司隶。’ |
| 《·》: | 至于南人能入柱以出耳，御寇停肘水而控弦，伯昏蹑亿仞而企踵，吕梁能行歌以凭渊，宋公克象叶以乱真，公输飞木玄之翩翾，离朱觌毫芒于百步，贲获效膂力于万钧，越人揣针以苏死，竖亥超迹于累千，郢人奋斧于鼻垩，仲都袒身于寒天，此皆周孔所不能为也，复可以为无有乎？ |
| 《·》: | 高后时浮丘伯在长安，元王遣子郢客与申公俱卒业。 |
| 《·》: | 徐广《史记音义》曰：楚元王子郢客，以吕后二年封上邳侯也。 |
| 《·》: | 荆州江北诸郡为郢州。 |
