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|lshtext=<b>hĭrūdo</b>: ĭnis, f. (also called sanguisūga),<br /><b>I</b> 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.
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