The bloodsucker, a well-known water-worm; an apt emblem of avarice and rapacity, Pr 30:15. Cicero speaks of the horseleeches of the public treasury at Rome.
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American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, American Tract Society, c. 1859, edited by W. W. Rand.