行霸道 xíng bàdào
xíng bàdào
phrase
to rule as a hegemon
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: from Chapter 8 滅國下 Destruction of a State II in Scroll 5 of 春秋繁露 “Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals,” attributed to 董仲舒 Dong Zhongshu 179–104 BCE (Amies 2021 tr.; see also Dong, Queen, and Major tr. 2016, p. 156)