[58] _pataku_ has
apparently
the same sense originally as _bataku_,
although the one forms its preterite _iptik_, and the other
_ibtuk_.
although the one forms its preterite _iptik_, and the other
_ibtuk_.
Epic of Gilgamesh
[49] On the verb _naku_ see the Babylonian Book of Proverbs ? 27.
[50] The verb _la'atu_, to pierce, devour, forms its preterite _ilut_;
see VAB. IV 216, 1. The present tense which occurs here as _ilut_
also.
[51] Note _BUL(tu-ku)_ eratatu_ (falsely entered in Meissner,
SAI. 7993), and _irattutu_ in Zimmern, _Shurpu_, Index.
[52] "For _ipsah_. "
[53] Sic! _hu_ reduced to the breathing _'u_; read _i-ni-'u_.
[54] The tablet is reckoned at forty lines in each column,
[55] Literally "he attained my front. "
[56] IV1 of _waladu_.
[57] I. e. , in the suburb of Erech.
[58] _pataku_ has apparently the same sense originally as _bataku_,
although the one forms its preterite _iptik_, and the other
_ibtuk_. Cf. also _mahasu_ break, hammer and construct.
[59] The passage is obscure. Here _suhuru_ is taken as a loan-word
from sugur timmatu, hair of the head. The infinitive II1 of _saharu_
is philologically possible.
[60] I. e. , an ordinary man.
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