Note 1083 — BOOK XVI.
H. White translation
Tota enim nocte piscantes, sanguisugas, aspendios cepimus. (Zw. Epp. ii. p. 13.) Rasdorfer evidently alludes to what Pliny says of a kind of vine termed Aspendios: E diverso aspendios, damnata aris. Ferunt eam nec ab alite ulla attingi. (Hist. Nat. lib. xiv. cap. xviii § 22.)