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con-fŭgĭo , fūgi, 3,
I.v. n., to flee to for refuge or succor, take refuge in or with (class. in prose and poetry).
II. Trop., to take refuge in, have recourse to (esp. freq. in Cic.): “ad opem judicum,Cic. Font. 11, 23; cf.: “ad florentes Etruscorum opes,Liv. 1, 2, 3: “ad meam fidem,Cic. Div. in Caecil. 4, 11: “ad clementiam tuam,id. Lig. 10, 30: “ad preces,Quint. 6, 1, 4; 11, 3, 63; Plin. Ep. 8, 19, 1: “ad artes patrias,Ov. F. 1, 572 al.: “cujus (philosophiae) in sinum,Cic. Tusc. 5, 2, 5: “in tuam fidem, veritatem, misericordiam,id. Quint. 2, 10: “quasi ad aram in exsilium,id. Caecin. 34, 100: neque tu scilicet Eo nunc confugies: Quid mea, etc.? to take refuge, i. e. excuse yourself with, Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 45; cf.: “an illuc confugies,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 83, § 191: “Epicurus confugit illuc, ut neget, etc.,id. Fin. 2, 9, 28: “habebam quo confugerem, ubi conquiescerem,id. Fam. 4, 6, 2: “confugiet ad imprudentiam, stultitiam, adulescentiam,Auct. Her. 2, 3, 5.—Impers.: “confugitur aliquo,Lact. Inst. Div. 1, 2, 9; id. Mort. Persec. 33, 5.
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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 4.6.2
    • Cicero, For Ligarius, 10.30
    • Cicero, For Aulus Caecina, 34.100
    • Cicero, Divinatio against Q. Caecilius, 4.11
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.3.191
    • Cicero, For Marcus Fonteius, 11.23
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 1.666
    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 14
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7.299
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.688
    • Caesar, Civil War, 3.9
    • Cornelius Nepos, Iphicrates, 3.2
    • Cornelius Nepos, Themistocles, 8.3
    • Cornelius Nepos, Thrasybulus, 2.1
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 8.19.1
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 2.3
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 2.9
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 1.35
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 5.2
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 2.12
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 6, 1.4
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 3.63
    • Ovid, Tristia, 5.2
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 3.1.6
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 6.9.24
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 9.8.12
    • Ovid, Fasti, 1
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