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fugo
fugo
Latin
Etymology
From Latin fuga (“flight, escape, exile”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfu.ɡoː/, [ˈfʊ.ɡoː]
Verb
fugō (present infinitive fugāre, perfect active fugāvī, supine fugātum); first conjugation
- I chase away, put to flight.
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 26.1
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C. Sulpicio cui Sicilia euenerat duae legiones quas P. Cornelius habuisset decretae et supplementum de exercitu Cn. Fului, qui priore anno in Apulia foede caesus fugatusque erat.
- To Gaius Sulpicius to whom Sicily was allotted two legions which Publius Cornelius had held were decided upon and reinforcements from Gnaius Fulvius’ army, which in the previous year had been shamefully defeated decisively and put to flight in Apulia
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C. Sulpicio cui Sicilia euenerat duae legiones quas P. Cornelius habuisset decretae et supplementum de exercitu Cn. Fului, qui priore anno in Apulia foede caesus fugatusque erat.
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- I drive into exile.
- I dismiss, to avert
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References
- fugo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fugo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fugo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to put the enemy to flight: fugare hostem
- to utterly rout the enemy: fundere et fugare hostem
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(ambiguous) to keep out of a person's sight: fugere alicuius conspectum, aspectum
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(ambiguous) to follow virtue; to flee from vice: honesta expetere; turpia fugere
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(ambiguous) to shun society: hominum coetus, congressus fugere
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(ambiguous) to shun publicity: publico carere, forum ac lucem fugere
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(ambiguous) to flee like deer, sheep: pecorum modo fugere (Liv. 40. 27)
- to put the enemy to flight: fugare hostem