Lù Jī 陸璣
Style name Yuánkè 元恪. Native of Wújùn 吳郡 (modern Sūzhōu 蘇州). Active under the SūnWú regime in the mid-third century. The conventional account is preserved in Lù Démíng’s 陸德明 Jīngdiǎn shìwén 經典釋文 prefatory bibliography: under Wú he served as Tàizǐzhōngshùzǐ 太子中庶子 (“Junior Companion to the Crown Prince”) and as magistrate of Wūchéng 烏程 (modern Húzhōu 湖州). No exact dates are recoverable; he was dead by the early Western Jìn.
He must be carefully distinguished from the much more famous Western-Jìn poet and statesman Lù Jī 陸機 (261–303, zì Shìhéng 士衡, author of the Wén fù 文賦), with whom he is regularly confused in Míng and Qīng catalogues. The character of his name is jade-radical 璣, not machine-radical 機; the Suí shū jīngjí zhì, the Jīngdiǎn shìwén, and the Tángshū yìwén zhì all preserve the correct form, but the Míng Northern Imperial-College Shī zhèngyì and several other Míng editions misprint it as 陸機, a confusion noted (and corrected) by the Sìkù editors.
His sole surviving work is the Máoshī cǎomù niǎoshòu chóngyú shū 毛詩草木鳥獸蟲魚疏 (KR1c0005) — the foundational catalog of the Shī’s natural-history vocabulary, transmitted in 2 juǎn and surviving only through reconstruction (principally from Kǒng Yǐngdá’s Máoshī zhèngyì). The work also preserves four short pieces on the lineage of the four Hàn Shī schools that are the locus classicus for the canonical Máoshī discipular line and were taken over verbatim into the Máoshī zhèngyì and into all subsequent Sānlǐ / Shī commentary.