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THE VERB 145
si reproduces causative sú (§ (0); é lugal-bi igi-sud il-il d.imdugud­
Lqu]-dLm sLg-gL-a-bi-Sú an im-si-dúb-dúb, 'at the temple whose lord
raises his eyes afar, which shines like the zu-!Jird, the heavens trem­
ble' i. mu-zu-sú túr úe-im-si-da-dü, 'at thy name may the sheepfold
be built' 2.
al' it may reproduce the Sú of purpose; nam-til en-te-me-na-lea-sú
ud-ul-la-sú d·ningirsu-ra 3 (¡e-na-si-gub, 'for the life of Entemena unto
far away days before Ningirsu may he stand' 4. Sú of 'contact with'
appears in the peculiar construction empIoyed with the verb sam' to pur­
chase'. The wife of the patesi, [/en-ki-azag-sú enim-bi-dug lagar dumu­
ni e-Sú-sam, 'purchases of Genkiazag, Enimbidug the psalmist, his
son' '.
§ 199. da, the suffix whose primary force is that of accompani- da.
ment, employed chiefly with persons, appears as the verbal infix in the
same sense. galu-ni ma-al-ga-sud-da mu-dél-gin-na-a, 'her man who
came wi th Malgas ud ' 6. uru-mú ú sig-ni zag-ba m u-da-nad-ám, 'in
my city the strong and weak lay side by side' 7. d·ningirsu-da um-lea­
gi-na inim-bi dúg-e-da-kesda, 'vVith Ningirsu Urukagina contracted
this oath' 8. Ili-idinnam and Ili-ummati brothers, Ea-idinnam son of
Ibku-Jstar and Kuritum his wife nam-clumu-ni-sú ba-da-an-rig, 'have
taken for their sons', literally, 'have taken with themselves' 9. This
force of association appears also in ideas of violent reprisal, the notion
being that the subject violently takes away an object with itself. gi-li
bar-tul-bi-ta ba-da-an-kár-ra, 'the marsh land in its falness it has pillag-
1. Cyl. A 9, 13-15.
2_ Cyl. B 22, 17.
3. The text adds dnina.
4. SAK. ,10, VI 3-8. el. also 30 e) 12.
;';.RTe. 17 obv. I-H.
e':. RTC. 19 obv. III.
7. Gud. B 7, 34. [Translation after TH.-DANGIN.]
S. SAK. 52, XII 26-8.
~_ P,)EBEL, op. laud, no. 21, 1-5. The postpositional infixes properly precede
12::.", ,:,'·,jec:t, but cL the incorreet form ba-an-da-rig, ibid., 28 4; 57, 3.
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