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Headword: *ai(/mati klai/ein
Adler number: alphaiota,192
Translated headword: to weep blood, to weep in blood
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
By exaggeration, [this means] not [to weep] tears.
This is what the ancients used to say about those whom they would not have been able to persuade no matter what they did. "He would not persuade him, not even by weeping blood."[1]
They also say, "not even by groaning blood would he persuade."[2]
Greek Original:
*ai(/mati klai/ein: kaq' u(perbolh/n, ou) da/krusin. e)f' w(=n mh\ du/nainto pei=sai pa/nta pra/ttontes, ou(/tws e)/legon oi( a)rxai=oi. ou)d' a)\n pei/sh| au)to/n, ou)d' ai(/mati klai/wn. le/gousi de\ kai/, ou)d' a)\n ai(/mati ste/nwn pei/seien.
Notes:
cf. Apostolius 1.63; and more briefly in Photius and elsewhere.
[1] Cross-referenced at omicron 775, where however the quotation begins at ou)d' and ends in the finite verb klai/w rather than this participle klai/wn. The participial version is the authentic one, appearing also in other lexica which stem from Pausanias the Atticist (alpha46); proverbial, besides, in Apostolius 1.63. The source of the (full) quotation, however, is indeterminable.
[2] Also in Apostolius 1.63 (see preceding note), but otherwise unattested.
Keywords: daily life; definition; ethics; imagery; medicine; proverbs
Translated by: William Hutton on 11 February 2003@00:02:35.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 11 February 2003@03:27:28.
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David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 14 May 2012@10:14:55.
David Whitehead on 19 March 2015@12:05:52.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 26 November 2015@03:29:45.

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