I.that flees or has fled, fugitive (not in Cic. or Cæs.; cf. fugitivus).
I. 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.—
B. 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.—
II. 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.—
1. 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.—
2. An apostate: “reus suae religionis aut profugus,” Min. Fel. 35, 6.
