[376] King, Babylonian Magic, p. 3.
[377] Humanity.
[378] The reference is to the formal lamentations on the occasion of the death of any one. The moon-god, having disappeared, is bewailed as though dead.
[379] I.e., under all conditions and at all times.
[380] The reading Nâru is not altogether certain, but probable. See Tallqvist, Assyr. Beschwör. pp. 131, 132, whose suggestion, however, that Nâru may be a female deity, is not acceptable. Elitti is probably a scribal error.
[382] Tallqvist, I. l. 38.
[384] To bewitch me.