[35] Probably phonetic variant of _edir_. The preterite of _ederu_, to be in misery, has not been found. If this interpretation be correct the preterite _edir_ is established. For the change _r_ > _l_ note also _attalah_ < _attarah_, Harper, _Letters_ 88, 10, _bilku_ < _birku_, RA. 9, 77 II 13; _uttakkalu_ < _uttakkaru_, Ebeling, KTA. 49 IV 10. [36] Also _na_-'-[ -]_ma_ is possible. [37] The text cannot be correct since it has no intelligible sign. My reading is uncertain. [38] Text uncertain, _kal-lu-tim_ is possible. [39] _KAK-si_. [40] _KAK-si_. [41] Literally nostrils. _pitik apunnati-su_, work done in his presence(?). The meaning of the idiom is uncertain. [42] Text _ZU_! [43] Text has erroneous form. [44] Text _PA-it-tam_ clearly! [45] Omitted by the scribe. [46] Sic! The plural of _kakku_, _kakkitu_(?). [47] Cf. _e-pi-sa-an-su-nu libaru_, "May they see their doings," _Maklu_ VII 17. [48] For _sakin-sum_. [49] On the verb _naku_ see the Babylonian Book of Proverbs Sec. 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)_ = _ratatu_ (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 = kimmatu, hair of the head. The infinitive II1 of _saharu_ is philologically possible. [60] I.e., an ordinary man. End of Project Gutenberg's The Epic of Gilgamish, by Stephen Langdon