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transfugium

transfugium · n

a going over to the enemy

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Where it lives

Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Historiae 2 · 0.39/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

transfŭgĭum — Lewis & Short

transfŭgĭum, ii, n.transfugio.

I Lit., a going over to the enemy, desertion (very rare): ut transfugia impeditiora essent, Liv. 22, 43, 5: crebra, ut in civili bello, Tac. H. 2, 34; 4, 70; id. A. 2, 46. —

II Transf.: sacrarii, a migrating to Rome, Prud. adv. Symm. 2, 503: ad Christum de circumcisione, conversion, Sid. Ep. 8, 13.

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