The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

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Result: 20 paragraph(s)

The lament for Unug: c.2.2.5
"Its ribs shall be crowbars that let light pass inside like the sun's rays. Knotted at both its hips shall be city-destroying slingstones. Its great haunches shall be dripping knives, covered with gore, that make blood flow. Its muscles shall be saws that slash, its feet those of an eagle. It shall make the Tigris and Euphrates quaver, it shall make the mountains rumble. At its reverberation the hills shall be uprooted, the people shall be pitched about like sheaves, Sumer and Akkad shall shiver, they shall be flooded like a harvest crop. The foolish shall rejoice, they shall exclaim (?): "Let it come -- we shall be seeing war and battle in the city, how the sacred precinct (?) is destroyed, how the walls are battered down, how the city's peace is disrupted, how among the loyal families honest men are transformed into traitors.""

A praise poem of Šulgi (Šulgi B): c.2.4.2.02
I am no fool as regards the knowledge acquired since the time that mankind was, from heaven above, set on its path: when I have discovered tigi and zamzam hymns from past days, old ones from ancient times, I have never declared them to be false, and have never contradicted their contents. I have conserved these antiquities, never abandoning them to oblivion. Wherever the tigi and the zamzam sounded, I have recovered all that knowledge, and I have had those šir-gida songs brilliantly performed in my own good house. So that they should never fall into disuse, I have added them to the singers' repertoire, and thereby I have set the heart of the Land on fire and aflame.

The advice of a supervisor to a younger scribe (E-dub-ba-a C): c.5.1.3
"I just did whatever he outlined for me -- everything was always in its place. Only a fool would have deviated from his instructions. He guided my hand on the clay and kept me on the right path. He made me eloquent with words and gave me advice. He focused my eyes on the rules which guide a man with a task: zeal is proper for a task, time-wasting is taboo; anyone who wastes time on his task is neglecting his task."

The debate between Bird and Fish: c.5.3.5
"You utter fool! Dolt, muddle-headed Fish, you are out of ……! The mouths of those who circle (?) the quay never get enough to eat, and their hunger lasts all day. Swine, rascal, gorging yourself upon your own excrement, you freak!"

A diatribe against Engar-dug (Diatribe B): c.5.4.11
Engar-dug, ……, fool, ……, child raised in ……, disgraced man, madman …… leather, dropping …… from a wall!

The instructions of Šuruppag: c.5.6.1
The fool loses something. When sleeping, the fool loses something." Do not tie me up!" he pleads; "Let me live!" he pleads.

Proverbs: collection 3: c.6.1.03
Fools are the ribcages of heroes.

Proverbs: collection 3: c.6.1.03
The fool is garrulous.

Proverbs: collection 5: c.6.1.05
The bitch is a fool: bread is the food ration for her mouth, and a …… is the judge for her anus!

Proverbs: collection 9: c.6.1.09
He who knows but does not speak is a fool.

Proverbs: collection 9: c.6.1.09
(cf. 6.1.13.29, 6.1.19.e3, 6.2.3: UET 6/3 464 l. 3)A fool who was overwhelmed …… by his backside stuck his hand up his backside.

Proverbs: collection 12: c.6.1.12
(= Alster 1997 12 Sec. A 5) …… in order to make an agreement with …… his fool …… I will tell him …… (2 lines fragmentary)

Proverbs: collection 15: c.6.1.15
(= Alster 1997 15 Sec. A 3A)Then, when you shout like a fool, someone should say: "Your …… is a captured donkey!"

Proverbs: collection 19: c.6.1.19
(cf. 6.1.09.d3, 6.1.13.29, 6.2.3: UET 6/3 464 l. 3)A fool who was overwhelmed by his backside stuck his hand up his backside.

Proverbs: from Urim: c.6.2.3
(cf. 6.1.09.d2-3, 6.1.13.29, 6.1.19.e2-3)The wise one …… knowledgeable one ……. A fool who was overwhelmed by his backside stuck his hand up his backside.

Proverbs: from Urim: c.6.2.3
(cf. UET 6/2 288)No matter how much wisdom exerts itself (?), you, fool, achieve what you need.

Proverbs: from Urim: c.6.2.3
(cf. UET 6/2 278, UET 6/2 295)Because he always went, because he always ran," He carried away. He carried away!" is the name assigned to him. A fool.

Proverbs: from Urim: c.6.2.3
(cf. UET 6/2 371 ll. 5-6)No matter how much wisdom exerts itself (?), the fool achieves what he needs.

Proverbs: of unknown provenance: c.6.2.5
…… a fool (?) …… pronounces judgment (?) over me.

Proverbs: of unknown provenance: c.6.2.5
To the wolf vegetable, to the fox-grape (?) vegetable, to the lion plant, to the …… plant, to the dog's-tongue plant, to the property plant, to the shouting plant, the lion roars out: "These have no names." The fool's lot was created by Utu.