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phlebotomia

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Ὁ αὐτὸς ἔφησε τὸν μὲν ὕπνον ὀλιγοχρόνιον θάνατον, τὸν δὲ θάνατον πολυχρόνιον ὕπνον → Plato said that sleep was a short-lived death but death was a long-lived sleep

Gnomologium Vaticanum, 446

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

phlĕbŏtŏmĭa: (flĕb-), ae, f., = φλεβοτομία,
I blood-letting, phlebotomy: phlebotomiam adhibere, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 18, 104: phlebotomiā uti, Veg. Vet. 1, 14, 3.