Translating a War Banner

Introduction

As I watched a friend play the ninja videogame Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, I noticed an inscription on an enemy samurai's war banner. I wrote it down; now I'm translating it.

有死之荣，无生之辱

Source and Translation

A rough translation of just this phrase is:

Having the honor of death, not the shame of life

This quotation comes from the Wuzi, a Chinese military classic by Wu Qi, a Legalist philosopher who lived during the Warring States period. He was a military leader in Wei and, later, a politician in Chu.

The full quote, reproduced below, is a sentence which concludes the first passage of the section 论将 Lùnjiàng.

故师出之日，有死之荣，无生之辱。

I haven't read the full passage yet, but a rough translation is:

Therefore, on the day that soldiers are dispatched, have the honor of death, not the shame of life.

Here I classify 有 and 无 as imperatives ("have!" / "don't have!"), and the characters after them as Noun-Genitive-Noun constructs (e.g. 死之容 "death GEN honor" "the honor of death".)

For those who are not Chinese scholars, I'll note that Classical Chinese used vertical¹ formatting and no punctuation marks, as shown in this Chinese Text Project image of a physical copy of the Wuzi. In addition, the Wuzi was written in "traditional characters," so some of the characters in this phrase would have been written differently. In particular, 无 above would be 無, 师 would be 師, and 荣 would be 榮. Putting it all together, here's what it would have looked like on the original wooden strips:

故師出之日有死之榮無生之辱

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