Not to sprout anew (1)

Text
Dream-Book (Assyrian):
Just as this reed has been pulled up and will not return to its ground, and this fringe has been cut off my garment and, being cut, will not return to my garment, so may the evil of this dream … not overtake me: it is not mine.

KUB 7 41.24-27 (Hittite Ritual Text):
He goes forth and before the gate cuts off a stick with an axe, and says: ‘Even as I cut this stick and it does not reattach itself, may this house likewise cut evil bloodshed and may it not come back!’

Homer, Iliad 1.234-237:
(Achilles swears by the sceptre he is holding:) ‘(as surely as) it will never (again) grow leaves and branches, or sprout anew, now that it has left the place in the mountains where it was cut, for the bronze has stripped it of its leaves and bark,’ … (so surely will the Achaeans feel the want of himself).

Sources (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Dream-Book (Assyrian)
Homer, Iliad 1.234-237
KUB 7 41.24-27 (Hittite Ritual Text)

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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