(adjective) : rĕfŭgus, a, um, id.
* Fleeing back, fleeing away, receding, vanishing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Virg. or Hor.): unda,Ov. M. 10, 42; cf. flumen (with fugientia poma),id. H. 18, 182: fluctus,Luc. 1, 411: Nilus,id. 8, 526: mare,Stat. Th. 12, 634: latices,Claud. in Ruf. 2, 509: Nilus,Plin. Pan. 30, 4: equites irritato proelio sponte refugi,Tac. H. 2, 24: umbra,vanishing,Val. Fl. 4, 41: refugosque gerens a fronte capillos,flying back,Luc. 10, 132.— With gen. (late Lat.): jejunii,Ambros. in Psa. 118, Serm. 20, § 4.—Subst.: rĕfŭgus, i, m.: refugos sequi,fugitives,Tac. A. 13, 40; cf. id. H. 3, 61.

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