[Meaning] one who is purblind in the eyes and has eyes that are runny, like Charon [Author, Myth].[1]
A bleary-eyed person [is] an unclean person. And Sophocles [sc. uses the term] in reference to a bird: "bleary in their feeding."[2] Aristophanes in Frogs [writes]: "and Archedemos the bleary-eyed."[3] "Crush together Lakonian spurge with garlic juice and smear it on your eyelids in the evening."[4] Doctors were accustomed, out of boasting, to name even the native countries of plants; for instance Kyrenean juice, [and] Smyrnaean. The Lakonian spurge was celebrated; it is a very bitter kind of plant found among the Lakonians. [Bleary-eyed] is said in reference to those whose are purblind in their eyes. "What if Neokleides the bleary-eyed should insult you? "[5] This man used to be lampooned in comedy as a sycophant and a foreigner and a thief.
A bleary-eyed person is one who has eyes full of impurities.