The corpus record — Latin

refugium

refugium · n

a recourse

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Where it lives

Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 1 · 0.62/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

rĕfŭgĭum — Lewis & Short

rĕfŭgĭum, ii, n.refugio,

I a recourse, a taking refuge (mostly post-Aug.; cf.: perfugium, asylum).

I Lit. (not in Cic.).

A Abstr.: ad naves, Front. Strat. 1, 11 fin. — In plur.: portas refugiis profugorum aperuere, Just. 11, 4, 9. —

B Concr., a place of refuge, a refuge: silvae tutius dedere refugium, Liv. 9, 37: refugium abscondendi causā servo praestare, Dig. 11, 3, 1, § 2.—In plur., Front. Strat. 1, 3 fin.: refugia aperire, Dig. 7, 1, 13, § 7: quos refugia montium receperunt, Just. 2, 6, 11.—

II Trop., a refuge: regum, populorum, nationum portus erat et refugium senatus, * Cic. Off. 2, 8, 26; Suet. Tib. 35: Dominus refugium pauperi, Vulg. Psa. 9, 9.—In plur.: refugia salutis, Just. 14, 2, 8.

In the wild

refugium Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.9.37.10
refugium Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 13.2
refugium Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 p37
refugium Suetonius, Tiberius 35.2
refugium Cicero, De Officiis 2.26.p3
refugia Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 27

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