Luke 19:48

ἐξεκρέματο αὐτοῦ. Literally, “were hanging from him,” i.e. hung on His lips; “pendet ab ore,” Verg. Aen. IV. 79. The word occurs here only in the N.T., but is found in Genesis 44:30, LXX[338] Scarcely a single version preserves the vivid metaphor of the original; most of them coldly paraphrase it, like the A.V[339] Tyndale and Cranmer have ‘stuck by him,’ and Vulg[340] suspensus erat.

[338] LXX. Septuagint.
[339] A.V. Authorised Version.
[340] Vulg. Vulgate.

“On thee the loyal-hearted hung.”

TENNYSON.

“Hanged on Him, as the bee doth on the flower, the babe on the breast, the little bird on the bill of her dam. Christ drew the people after Him by the golden chain of His heavenly eloquence.” J. Trapp.