The corpus record — Latin

refugus

refugus · adj

fleeing back

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
Carmina 4 · 1.78/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕfŭgus — Lewis & Short

rĕfŭgus, a, um, adj.id.,

I fleeing back, fleeing away, receding, vanishing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Virg. or Hor.): unda, Ov. M. 10, 42; cf. flumen (with fugientia poma), id. H. 18, 182: fluctus, Luc. 1, 411: Nilus, id. 8, 526: mare, Stat. Th. 12, 634: latices, Claud. in Ruf. 2, 509: Nilus, Plin. Pan. 30, 4: equites irritato proelio sponte refugi, Tac. H. 2, 24: umbra, vanishing, Val. Fl. 4, 41: refugosque gerens a fronte capillos, flying back, Luc. 10, 132.— With gen. (late Lat.): jejunii, Ambros. in Psa. 118, Serm. 20, § 4.—Subst.: rĕfŭgus, i, m.: refugos sequi, fugitives, Tac. A. 13, 40; cf. id. H. 3, 61.

In the wild

refugos Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.434
refugum Statius, Thebais 12.634
refugo Statius, Thebais 2.421
refugosque Lucan, Pharsalia 10.132
refugo Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 7.480
refugas Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 11.102

6 of 27 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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