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《道政坊宅》(出《乾𦠆子》)人居者“必大遭凶禍”,房次卿假住累月無患,李直方曰:“是先輩凶於宅。”按此亦嘲謔匡格,古希臘小詩謂蝮蛇嚙一人,其人無恙而蛇則死矣,蓋人毒於蝮也(An evil viper once bit a Cappadocian,but it died itself,havingtasted the venomous blood)。仿作甚多,如有言渾家人病疫死,一悍婦獨勿藥瘳,此婦凶於疫鬼也(the yellow Fiend in Lust and Pride/Would clasp a Fury as his Bride/And the Plague died of fierce Jane Burr)。
Greek Anthology,XI. 237,Demodocus,“Loeb”,IV,123.
Coleridge,Notebooks,II,§ 2779.