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Longus has Lycaenion talk of shouting and weeping and bleeding, καὶ οἰμώξει καὶ κλαύσεται κἀν αἵματι κείσεται πολλῶι, which taken together give a more complex motivation for D’s hesitation than your (simply) bleeding.

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