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“Who goes in front will save his comrade, who knows the road shall [guard] his friend.”
‘Take my hand, friend, and we shall go [on] together, [let] your thoughts dwell on combat! IV 255 Forget death and [seek] life!
‘No one at all sees Death, X 305 no one at all sees the face [of Death,] no one at all [hears] the voice of Death, Death so savage, who hacks men down.
‘The Anunnaki, the great gods, held an assembly, X 320 Mammitum, maker of destiny, fixed fates with them: both Death and Life they have established, but the day of Death they do not disclose.’
‘Set to, O Enkidu! Two men together will not die: that lashed to a boat cannot sink, no man can cut a three-ply rope, a flood cannot sweep a man off a wall, fire in a reed hut cannot be extinguished! 110 You join with me, I will join with you, what can anyone do to us then?
