(adjective) : prŏfŭgus, a, um, profugio
* That flees or has fled, fugitive (not in Cic. or Caes.; cf. fugitivus).
* In gen.: profugus domo,Liv. 1, 1: ex urbe,Tac. H. 4, 49: ex Peloponneso,Liv. 1, 8: e proelio,Tac. H. 2, 46: a proelio,Flor. 4, 2: ad rebelles,Tac. A. 1, 57.—Of animals: boves profugae,Prop. 5, 1, 4: juvenci,Val. Fl. 3, 57: taurus profugus altaribus,Tac. H. 3, 56; cf. currus,Ov. M. 15, 506.—With gen.: Tiridates regni profugus,Tac. A. 15, 1: bis vinculorum (Hannibalis) profugus,escaped from,Plin. 7, 28, 29, § 104.
* Transf., fleeing hither and thither, vagabond, roving, wandering, unsettled (poet.): profugi Scythae,Hor. C. 1, 35, 9: Scythes,id. 4, 14, 42; Vulg. Gen. 4, 12.
* In partic., that flees from his native country, fugitive, banished, exiled: Hannibal patriā profugus,Liv. 34, 60: Trojani, qui profugi incertis sedibus vagabantur,Sall. C. 6, 1: fato profugus,Verg. A. 1, 2: classis,Ov. M. 13, 627.
* Subst.: prŏ-fŭgus, i, and prŏfŭga, ae, m.
* A fugitive, banished person, exile (poet.): profugus patriam deseras,Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 75: profugo affer opem,Ov. P. 2, 9, 6; 3, 6, 40: servi alieni profugae,App. M. 6, p. 175, 7; cf. Prisc. p. 622 P.
* An apostate: reus suae religionis aut profugus,Min. Fel. 35, 6.

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