Note 524 — MENSIS IUNIUS.
Reading edition
The word strix is Greek, or at least identical with the Greek word. But the belief in vampires is so widely spread (cf. Tylor, Prim. Cult. ii. 175 foll.) that we must not conclude hastily that it came to Italy with the Greeks: it is met with as early as Plautus (Pseud. 3. 2. 20). Cf. Pliny, H. N. 11. 232.