《资治通鉴·汉纪·汉纪二十一》
而今我出任郡守，把考核功效引为自己的责任，只恐怕还没有着手便被诛杀。求陛下不要使我应验大水上涌的预言，像正先那样死去，让姚平嘲笑。 
今臣得出守郡，自诡效功，恐未效而死，惟陛下毋使臣塞涌水之异，当正先之死，为姚平所笑。 
Now that I have become a governor, I have taken the evaluation of merit as my own responsibility, and I'm only afraid that before I have even gotten started I will be killed. I beg that Your Majesty not let me fulfill the prediction of the great flood and die like Zheng Xian, giving Yao Ping reason to laugh at me.