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A man like Æneas, always “melting into salt tears,” called “drops of salt.”
“This would make a man a man of salt,
To use his eyes for garden waterpots.”
Shakespeare: King Lear, iv. 6.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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