The corpus record — Latin

transfuga

transfuga · comm

one who runs over to the enemy

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Where it lives

De Bello Hispaniensi 4 · 6.61/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 18 · 2.43/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
De Bello Africo 1 · 0.77/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2 · 0.76/10k

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

transfŭga — Lewis & Short

transfŭga, ae, comm.transfugio,

I one who runs over to the enemy, a deserter (cf. perfuga).

I Lit.: transfuga non is solum accipiendus est, qui aut ad hostes aut in bello transfugit, sed et qui per indutiarum tempus ad eos, cum quibus nulla amicitia est, fide susceptā transfugit, Dig. 49, 15, 19, § 8: non omnia illum transfugam ausum esse senatui dicere, Cic. Div. 1, 44, 100: Scipio transfugas ac fugitivos bestiis objecit, Liv. Epit. 51 fin.: proditores et transfugas arboribus suspendunt. Tac. G. 12: barbari, Suet. Calig. 47: simulati, Flor. 2, 6, 16; 3, 11, 10.—

II Transf., in gen.: transfuga divitum Partes linquere gestio, Hor. C. 3, 16, 23: paucissimi Quiritium medieinam attigere, et ipsi statim ad Graecos transfugae, Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 17: secuti sunt quasi transfugam, quem ducem sequebantur. Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 25: mundi, i. e. from the Roman empire, Luc. 8, 335: ne fias istā transfuga sorte vide, Mart. 14, 131, 2; Claud. in Eutr. 1, 15: metalli, Dig. 49, 15, 12 fin.

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