说苑/楚莊王有茅門者，法曰：「群臣大夫、諸公子、入朝，馬蹄蹂霤者，斬其輈而戮其御。

楚莊王有茅門者，法曰：「群臣大夫、諸公子、入朝，馬蹄蹂霤者，斬其輈而戮其御。

Eric Henry

King Zhuang of Chu88 had a law applying to the Mao gate89 that went, “If any officer or prince enters the court in such a way that his horses’ hooves trample the area beneath the eaves, the court supervisor will chop off the guardrails of his carriage and execute his driver.” Once, when the crown prince was entering court, his horses trampled the area beneath the eaves, so the court supervisor chopped off his carriage guardrails and executed his driver.

」太子入朝，馬蹄蹂霤，廷理斬其輈而戮其御。

Eric Henry

Enraged, the crown prince went before the king and wept, saying, “Execute the court supervisor for me.” “Laws,” said King Zhuang, “are what bring respect to the ancestral temples and honor to the sacred altars of the state.

太子大怒，入為王泣曰：「為我誅廷理。

」王曰：「法者，所以敬宗廟、尊社稷。

Eric Henry

The one able to establish laws and follow orders so as to honor the altars of the state is an officer of those altars.

故能立法從令，尊敬社稷者，社稷之臣也。

Eric Henry

How can such a person be executed?

安可以加誅？

夫犯法廢令，不尊敬社稷，是臣棄君、下陵上也。

Eric Henry

When one violates laws and casts aside rules and fails to honor the altars of the state, let us note, this is the same as an officer casting aside his ruler or an inferior insulting a superior.

臣乘君則主失威，下陵上則上位危。

Eric Henry

When an officer casts aside his ruler, the ruler’s authority will disappear, and, when an inferior insults a superior, the superior’s position will be imperiled.

社稷不守，吾何以遺子？

」太子乃還走避舍，再拜請死。

Eric Henry

If the altars of the state cannot be kept safe, then what will I have to bequeath to you?” Upon hearing this, the crown prince hastily retreated a great distance, bowed low twice, and begged to die for his error.

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