To flie or runne away backe: to refuse: to eschewe: to auoide. Trepidusqúe repente refugit. Vir. Ad vrbem refugere. Liu. To flie backe againe to, &c. Ad aliquem refugere. Ci. A mari refugere. Col. Ex illo numero reliqui Syracusas refngerant. Ci. In secundam aciem refugere, Vide Acies. Refugit Roman. Liu. A pestiferis & nocentibus refugere. Cicer. To flie from the company of. Refugere consuetudine, Cic. To leane or eschewe ones cõpany and familiaritie, & become more strange with him. Refugiunt memoriam nostram isa. Colu. These things veene out of our remembraunce me remember not these things. Refugere. Plin. iun To eschew, flie, or anoide. Multi refugiunt & reformidãr talem positionem ruris. Co. Many do eschue and auoyde, &c. Procul hæc fortuna refugit. Ouid. Animus refugit, eaque reformidat dicere, quæ, &c. Ci. My minde eschneth, and is afeard to vtter those things, which &c. Refugere inuidiam muneris. Senec. To refuse a present, to the ende to eschue the enuie that will followe of it: o bicause of the il wil and displeasure of men. Iurgia vicina refugit. Hor. Periculum refugere ac deprecari. Asinius Ciceroni. Refugere tela. Ci. Omnem venerem refugerat Orpheus. Ouid. Iudicem refugere non deberet. Cic. He should not refuse a indge. Refugere ab admonendo. Ci. To leaue to monish or aduertise: to forbeare to counsaile any more. Refugere dicendo. Ci. To forbeare to speake for displeasure.

I. Neutr., to flee back; to run away, flee, escape.

A. Lit.: ex alto, Caes. B. C. 2, 23; cf.: ex castris in montem, id. ib. 3, 99 fin.: ex caede in castra, Hirt. B. G. 8, 36: ex cursu ad Philippum, Liv. 23, 39: a Parthiā, Just. 42, 5, 3: acie refugere, Caes. B. C. 3, 95: velocissime, id. B. G. 5, 35.— Absol., Caes. B. G. 7, 31; id. B. C. 3, 40; 3, 101; Liv. 2, 50; 31, 36; Verg. A. 12, 449.— With acc. of distance: mille fugit refugitque vias (cervus), Verg. A. 12, 753: admissis equis ad suos refugerunt, Caes. B. C. 2, 34: ad urbem, Liv. 43, 47 fin.: in portum, Caes. B. C. 3, 24: in aquam, Liv. 21, 28: in silvam, Verg. A. 3, 258: in nemus, id. ib. 6, 472: intra tecta, id. ib. 7, 500: per devios tramites, Suet. Aug. 16: Syracusas, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 38, 101: domum, Suet. Caes. 16. —

2. Of things: refugiat timido sanguen, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 58, 218; and id. Fin. 5, 11, 31 (Trag. v. 46 Vahl.): (sol) ubi medio refugerit orbe, shrinks from sight, Verg. G. 1, 442: vites a caulibus ut a pestiferis et nocentibus refugere dicuntur, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 120: refugere oculi, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 12, 26: quo pridie refugisset (mare), Curt. 9, 9, 26.—

b. Of places, to run back, recede in the distance: refugit ab litore templum, Verg. A. 3, 536; cf. Plin. 4, 12, 24, 76: ex oculis visa refugit humus, flees, disappears, vanishes, Ov. F. 3, 590: nam praestat a mari longo potius intervallo quam brevi refugisse (villas), Col. 1, 5, 6.—

B. Trop.: ne recordatione mei casus a consiliis fortibus refugiatis, Cic. Sest. 23, 51: ab institutā consuetudine, id. Att. 1, 1, 4: ab hac orationis turpitudine, id. Cael. 17, 41: a genere hoc toto sermonis, id. de Or. 1, 22, 99: a dicendo, id. ib. 2, 3, 10: dum recordationes fugio ... refugio a te admonendo, id. Att. 12, 18, 1; cf.: ab iis quae laedunt, Quint. 4, 1, 44: animus luctu refugit, Verg. A. 2, 12: refugit animus eaque dicere reformidat, Cic. Phil. 14, 3, 9: possum multa tibi veterum praecépta referre, Ni refugis, if you do not decline (to hear them), Verg. G. 1, 177. —

2. Pregn., to flee, to take refuge with a person or thing: ad legatos, Cic. Deiot. 11, 32: in arcem majorem, Liv. 38, 29: ad planctus, Stat. S. 5, 1, 30: ad carminis tranquillitatem tamquam ad portum faciliorem, Petr. 118, 2.—

II. Act., to flee back, run away from any thing; to avoid, shun a thing.

A. Lit.: judicem, Cic. Rosc. Com. 15, 45: impetum armati Antiochi ceterorumque tela atque incursus refugit, id. Caecin. 8, 22: quod autem refugit (animal), id contra naturam est, id. N. D. 3, 13, 33: non modo id refugisti, id. Verr. 2, 5, 16, 40: C. Cassium obvium sibi, Suet. Caes. 63: trepidus repente refugit Attollentem iras (anguem), Verg. A. 2, 380: (Cupido) refugit te, Hor. C. 4, 13, 10.— Poet., with inf.: nec Polyhymnia Lesboum refugit tendere barbiton, Hor. C. 1, 1, 34; Ov. Am. 3, 6, 5.—

B. Trop. (freq. after the Aug. per.): refugit Foeda ministeria, Verg. A. 7, 618: vicina jurgia, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 171: mandatum opus, Ov. H. 14, 50: haec vitia, Quint. 4, 2, 43: delicatam modulandi voluptatem, id. 9, 4, 31: distinctionem quaestionum, id. 4, 5, 6: id quod malum casurum putat refugit mens, Varr. L. L. 6, 48 Miill.: et alia, quae nunc memoriam meam refugiunt, escape my memory, Col. 12, 52, 8: mortem natura refugit, Aug. Serm. 172, 1.