analect
Usage examples of "analect".
It reminds me of an analect by Confucius, one that was very much in currency when I was younger.
The leading Confucianists were decoyed into a ravine and crushed by falling boulders, and the penalty for possession of one line of the Analects was death by slow dismemberment.
I think perhaps the Analects of Utuhegal the Blasphemer, or perhaps it was Thorald Moonaxe.
According to the ancient Analects, which guided the practitioners of Confucianism, ginger was such an important food that Confucius approved of its use even during periods of fasting or sacrificial worship, when the consumption of all other pungent or malodorous foods was prohibited.
With the Gospels under one arm, and the Analects of the Order under the other, with no sword at my waist, and with no shoes on my feet.
Barony of Angels, the Long Beach crew had a regular library of scriptures on which the people with whom they dealt could swear truthfulness: everything from the Analects to the Zend-Avesta.