"minute completeness!": Baike glosses as fine texture / meticulous / detailed appearance; the vernacular tl uses dense / close spaced
"undeflected": Baike's gloss is not abnormal / improper; vernacular tl is not demonic / evil and not low
"clipping": Baike's gloss is extinguishing, some say cut off, weaken. Weird word choice by Legge
"plain of Mu": Baike says this is Muye (ye means plain), which is a place name in modern day Yindu, Henan
"He offers the victims, red and pure." Yes cows
"have had their horns capped." Baike says this is a wooden crossbar attached to the horns to prevent them from fighting. Animals for sacrifice couldn't have any damage, so in preparation for fall ceremonies, the ox get this attached in the summer.
"the bull-figured goblet" is shaped like a bull per Baike. Also that line ends in some onomatopoeia of the clinking of the goblets
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Re: 魯頌 - Praise-Odes Of Lu: 300. 閟宮 - Bi Gong
Date: 2021-07-05 07:23 pm (UTC)"undeflected": Baike's gloss is not abnormal / improper; vernacular tl is not demonic / evil and not low
"clipping": Baike's gloss is extinguishing, some say cut off, weaken. Weird word choice by Legge
"plain of Mu": Baike says this is Muye (ye means plain), which is a place name in modern day Yindu, Henan
"He offers the victims, red and pure." Yes cows
"have had their horns capped." Baike says this is a wooden crossbar attached to the horns to prevent them from fighting. Animals for sacrifice couldn't have any damage, so in preparation for fall ceremonies, the ox get this attached in the summer.
"the bull-figured goblet" is shaped like a bull per Baike. Also that line ends in some onomatopoeia of the clinking of the goblets