Effugium, gij, n. g. Sen. Flight: refuge: a place of succour: a place to escape by: a passage.Assequi effugium. Cice. To obtaine some succour or refuge.Habere effugium. Idem. Incidere effugia. Tac. To keepe the passages.Perpaucis effugium patuit.Liu.Few might scape.Præcludere effugium alicui. Lucr. To stop the passage that he cannot scape.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
effŭgĭum, ii, n. [effugio], a flecing away, flight (rarely, but class.; cf.: perfugium, refugium, asylum): effugiumque fugae prolatet copia semper, Lucr. 1, 983: effugium praecludere eunti, id. 3, 523; cf. id. 1, 974: dare effugium alicui, Liv. 23, 1, 8; Tac. H. 1, 43: patēre in publicum, Liv. 24, 26: nullam ne ad effugium quidem navem habentibus, id. 21, 43 et saep.: mortis, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 64 fin.—In the piur.: ob nostra effugia, Verg. A. 2, 140; Tac. A. 12, 56; 15, 63.—II. Concr., a means or way of escape: alias (bestias) habere effugia pennarum, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 121; cf. Tac. A. 2, 47; 3, 42; 12, 31; 16, 15; Vulg. 2 Reg. 15, 14.
