Gilgamesh, opening his mouth, said to Enkidu:

“My friend, who can escape death?

For all human beings the days are numbered,

Our activities are a breath of wind.

How is this, already you are afraid of death!

What is the use of calling yourself a hero?!

Do you want me to go first?

If I fall, I leave behind me a name that endures.

Men will say of me:

Gilgamesh has fallen in fighting, trying to fell the cedars”.