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perfugium

perfugium · n

a place to flee to

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

perfŭgĭum — Lewis & Short

perfŭgĭum, ii, n.perfugio,

I a place to flee to, a shelter, asylum, refuge (class.): perfugi sibi copiam comparare, Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 2: si unum ostium obsideatur, aliud perfugium petat, id. Truc. 4, 4, 17 Bothe: pedibus perfugium peperit, ran off, escaped, id. Cist. 1, 3, 13: cum propter siccitates paludum, quo se reciperent, non haberent, quo perfugio superiore anno fuerant usi, Caes. B. G. 4, 38: portum ac perfugium esse, Cic. Clu. 3, 7: perfugium et praesidium salutis, id. Rab. Perd. 2, 4: perfugium unum, una spes reliqua est Roscio, id. Rosc. Am. 52, 150: commune, id. Cat. 4, 1, 2: desperatissimum, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 41, § 101: perfugium omnium laborum et sollicitudinum somnus, id. Div. 2, 72, 150: annonae, i. e. Campania, id. Phil. 8, 8, 26.

In the wild

6 of 66 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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