《论衡·卷二十八·书解篇》
世人传闻的《诗》家鲁申公，《书》家千乘郡的欧阳生和公孙弘，如果不是遇上太史公将他们记载下来，世上的人也不会知道他们。
世传《诗》家鲁申公，《书》家千乘欧阳、公孙，不遭太史公，世人不闻。
If Shen Kung of Lu, whose scholarship in the Book of Poetry was so great, and Ou-yang Sheng and Kung-sun Hung of Ch'ien-ch'eng, who were so learned in the Book of History, had not happened to meet the Grand Historian, who preserved their records, the world would have forgotten them.