《梁书·本纪·卷一》
竟至于兆民被灭，士大夫遭戮，幸存的苟延残喘，旨令短暂，生民危惧，无立锥之地，于是山川倾覆，草木涂地。
至于兆庶歼亡，衣冠殄灭，余类残喘，指命崇朝，含生业业，投足无所，遂乃山川反覆，草木涂地。
The people were slaughtered and the scholars massacred, the survivors panting and gasping, their commands fleeting; the suffering people were frightened and had no place even to rest the point of an awl, whereupon mountains and rivers collapsed and grasses and trees covered the earth.