I.a leech, blood-sucker, Plin. 32, 10, 42, § 122: “ego me convortam in hirudinem atque exsugebo sanguinem,” Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 4.—Fig., of any thing that exhausts, etc.: “aerarii,” Cic. Att. 1, 16, 11: “non missura cutem, nisi plena cruoris, hirudo,” Hor. A. P. 476.
hĭrūdo , ĭnis, f. (also called sanguisūga),
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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