《资治通鉴·晋纪·晋纪二十》
东晋朝廷任命吴国内使荀羡为使持节、监徐兖二州及扬州之晋陵诸军事、徐州刺史。荀羡时年二十八岁，晋朝中兴以来的地方长官中，没有一个像他这样年轻的。
以吴国内史荀羡为使持节、监徐、兗二州、扬州之晋陵诸军事、徐州刺史，时年二十八，中兴方伯未有如羡之少者。
The Eastern Jin dynasty court appointed Wu Nei Shi Xun Xian as Shizhijie, Supervisor of Xu and Yan provinces and Yangzhou's Jinling military affairs. And Xu Zhou thorn history Xun Xian was twenty-eight years old. There was no other local official as young as him after the復興(Revival) of the Jin Dynasty.