confugiat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →confugio, confugere, confugi, confugitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
flee (for refuge/safety/protection); take refuge; have recourse/appeal to;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...uirtute malum, ut umquam ratio ad uitia confugiat! Non potest hic animus fidele otium capere, quatiatur necesse..."Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...depulsa recta via necessario ad eloquendi quaedam deverticula confugiat, nec mutare [que] modo verba, sed extendere corripere convertere..."VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...ideo velle torqueri~. Tormenta postulo. en ad quod confugiat homo, qui se sciat posse mentiri! nulla est ratio..."