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Enmerkar Quotes

Enmerkar (Sumerian: 𒂗𒈨𒅕𒃸 EN.me.er.kar2, born circa 27th-century BCE) is a legendary king listed as the builder of the Sumerian city of Uruk.

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May the people marvel admiringly, and may Utu witness it in joy.

No city was made to be so well-built as the city of Unug.

Messenger, by night, drive on like the south wind! By day, be up like the dew!

Lest I make the people fly off from that city like a wild dove from its tree, lest I make them fly around like a bird over its well-founded nest.

My troops are bound to me as a cow is bound to its calf.

Where there was a marsh then in Unug, it was full of water. Where there was any dry land, Euphrates poplars grew there. Where there were reed thickets, old reeds and young reeds grew there.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Enmerkar (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.