Sleep like a fog (1)

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Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 1.206-210:
(Utnapištim to Gilgameš:) ‘But you now, who’ll convene for you the gods’ assembly, so you can find the life you search for? For six days and seven nights, come, do without slumber!’ As soon as Gilgameš squatted down on his haunches, sleep like a fog already breathed over him.

Homer, Odyssey 10.28-33:
For nine days we sailed, night and day alike, and now on the tenth our native land came in sight, and lo, we were so near that we saw men tending the beacon fires. Then upon me came sweet sleep in my weariness, for I had ever kept in hand the sheet of the ship, and had yielded it to none other of my comrades, that we might the sooner come to our native land.

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Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 1.206-210
Homer, Odyssey 10.28-33

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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