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Horseleech

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

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The bloodsucker, a well-known water-worm; an apt emblem of avarice and rapacity, Proverbs 30:15 . Cicero speaks of the horseleeches of the public treasury at Rome.

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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Horseleech'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ats/​h/horseleech.html. 1859.
 
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