14. A king speaks of his wife as 'my wife.' She calls herself 'handmaid.' Her subjects speak of her as 'our lord's wife,' but when they speak to foreigners, they say 'our little queen.' Foreigners speak of her, too, as 'the lord's wife.'
FOOTNOTES:
[141] A small feudatory state of Lu.
[142] Tzu-lu. He and Jan Yu were in the service of the Chi.
[143] Jan Yu.
[144] A mountain in Chuan-yü. Since the Emperor had given the ruler of Chuan-yü the right to sacrifice to its mountains, that state had some measure of independence, though it was feudatory to Lu, and within its borders.
[145] A town belonging to the Chi.
[146] Of Lu.