The Yî King · James Legge
Judgment
Pi indicates that there should be free course (in what it denotes). There will be little advantage (however) if it be allowed to advance (and take the lead).
1882 scan · p. 103Line 1 · Nine, undivided
The first line, undivided, shows one adorning (the way of) his feet. He can discard a carriage and walk on foot.
1882 scan · p. 104Line 2 · Six, divided
The second line, divided, shows one adorning his beard.
1882 scan · p. 104Line 3 · Nine, undivided
The third line, undivided, shows its subject with the appearance of being adorned and bedewed (with rich favours). But let him ever maintain his firm correctness, and there will be good fortune.
1882 scan · p. 104Line 4 · Six, divided
The fourth line, divided, shows one looking as if adorned, but only in white. As if (mounted on) a white horse, and furnished with wings, (he seeks union with the subject of the first line), while (the intervening third pursues), not as a robber, but intent on a matrimonial alliance.
1882 scan · p. 104Line 5 · Six, divided
The fifth line, divided, shows its subject adorned by (the occupants of) the heights and gardens. He bears his roll of silk, small and slight. He may appear stingy; but there will be good fortune in the end.
1882 scan · p. 104Line 6 · Nine, undivided
The sixth line, undivided, shows one with white as his (only) ornament. There will be no error.
1882 scan · p. 104James Legge · The Yî King (1882), Princeton scan. All 450 selected passages were independently image-read and compared by AI; unresolved print details remain. Not human or expert collation. Source and data ↗