The corpus record — Latin

lūcĭfŭga

lūcĭfŭga · comm

lightfleeing, light-shunning

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What it meant

lūcĭfŭga — Lewis & Short

lūcĭfŭga, ae, comm.lux-fugio,

I lightfleeing, light-shunning.

I Lit.: maritus, i. e. Cupid (who visited Psyche only at night), App. M. 5, p. 167, 5; id. Mag. p. 284, 38.—

II Transf., one who turns night into day: turba lucifugarum, Sen. Ep. 122, 15.

Where it came from

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