All 9 Uses
endure
in
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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- Enkidu cried to Gilgamesh, "My friend, we boasted that we would leave enduring names behind us."
Book 3 *enduring = continuing to exist
- my friend who was very dear to me and endured dangers beside me,
Book 4 *endured = suffered through something difficult
- Then if I fall I leave behind me a name that endures; men will say of me, "Gilgamesh has fallen in fight with ferocious Humbaba."†
Book 2
- I am committed to this enterprise: to climb the mountain, to cut down the cedar, and leave behind me an enduring name.†
Book 2
- When two go together each will protect himself and shield his companion, and if they fall they leave an enduring name.†
Book 2
- Gilgamesh answered, 'For Enkidu; I loved him dearly, together we endured all kinds of hardships; on his account I have come, for the common lot of man has taken him.†
Book 4
- My friend, my younger brother, he who hunted the wild ass of the wilderness and the panther of the plains, my friend, my younger brother who seized and killed the Bull of Heaven and overthrew Humbaba in the cedar forest, my friend who was very dear to me and who endured dangers beside me, Enkidu my brother, whom I loved, the end of mortality has overtaken him.†
Book 4
- My friend, my younger brother who seized and killed the Bull of Heaven, and overthrew Humbaba in the cedar forest, my friend who was very dear to me, and who endured dangers beside me, Enkidu my brother whom I loved, the end of mortality has overtaken him.†
Book 4
- Do brothers divide an inheritance to keep for ever, does the flood-time of rivers endure?†
Book 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(endure as in: endured the pain) to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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(2)
(endure as in: endure through the ages) to continue to exist
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)