He did not hesitate to grovel
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não hesitou em ir humilhar-se diante delle, importunal-o com suas supplicas,
did not hesitate to go and humble himself before him, to importune him with his entreaties,
The proud man kneels. He goes to grovel before the very tormentor he loathes, pestering him with pleas — the abasement measured out in verbs of self-lowering. A father's dignity spent, deliberately, for his daughter's sake.
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