The corpus record — Latin

transfugio

transfugio · v. a

to flee over to the other side

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 13s 1 · 58.82/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 13 · 21.48/10k
Agesilaus 2 · 14.4/10k
Datames 1 · 5.49/10k
De Otio 1 · 5.1/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
Epidicus 1 · 1.54/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

trans-fŭgĭo — Lewis & Short

trans-fŭgĭo, fūgi, 3, v. a.,

I to flee over to the other side, go over to the enemy, desert (very rare; syn. transeo).

I Lit.: multi proximā nocte funibus per murum demissi ad Romanos transfugerunt, Liv. 34, 25, 12: cf. Suet. Ner. 3; Nep. Dat. 6, 3; id. Ages. 6, 2; Auct. B. Hisp. 7, 4; 11, 3; Tac. A. 3, 13; 4, 16.—In a comical transf.: Ep. Ubi arma sunt Stratippocli? Th. Pol illa ad hostes transfugerunt, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 28. —

II Trop.: non ab afflictā amicitiā transfugere atque ad florentem aliam devolare, Cic. Quint. 30, 93: illius oculi atque aures atque opinio Transfugere ad nos, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 107.

Where it came from

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