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diffugio

v. n., to fly asunder, flee in different directions, to disperse, scatter (class.): diffugiebat enim varium genus omne…

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Where it lives

Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
De Rerum Natura 14 · 2.87/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.26/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
De Bello Africo 2 · 1.54/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dif-fŭgĭo — Lewis & Short

dif-fŭgĭo, fūgi, 3,

I v. n., to fly asunder, flee in different directions, to disperse, scatter (class.): diffugiebat enim varium genus omne ferarum, Lucr. 5, 1337 sq.; 3, 256; cf. id. 1, 762 sq.: vox una diffugit in multas aures, id. 4, 564: metu perterriti repente diffugimus, Cic. Phil. 2, 42, 108; id. Fam. 15, 1, 5; id. Off. 3, 32, 114; Suet. Caes. 82; Hor. C. 1, 35, 26; Verg. A. 2, 212; 4, 123; Ov. F. 2, 211; id. M. 7, 257 et saep.: diffugiunt stellae, id. ib. 2, 114; cf.: diffugere nives, to scatter, disappear, Hor. C. 4, 7, 1: mordaces sollicitudines, id. ib. 1, 18, 4: tota exterrita silvis Diffugiunt armenta, Verg. G. 3, 150; cf. id. A. 10, 804.—Designating the limit: spiritus unguenti suavis diffugit in auras, Lucr. 3, 223: in vicos passim suos, Liv. 21, 28; cf.: ad sua praesidia, Hirt. B. G. 8, 35 fin.: ad naves, Verg. A. 2, 399: per agros, Val. Fl. 3, 255.

In the wild

Diffugiunt Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.114
diffugiunt Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 8.35.5
diffugiunt Ovid, Tristia 3.10.57
diffugere Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Africo 52
Diffugiunt Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.298
diffugiunt Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.16

6 of 75 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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