I.fleeing back, fleeing away, receding, vanishing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; “not in Virg. or Hor.): unda,” Ov. M. 10, 42; cf. “flumen (with fugientia poma),” id. H. 18, 182: “fluctus,” Luc. 1, 411: “Nilus,” id. 8, 526: “mare,” Stat. Th. 12, 634: “latices,” Claud. in Ruf. 2, 509: “Nilus,” Plin. Pan. 30, 4: “equites irritato proelio sponte refugi,” Tac. H. 2, 24: “umbra,” vanishing, Val. Fl. 4, 41: “refugosque gerens a fronte capillos,” flying back, Luc. 10, 132.— With gen. (late Lat.): “jejunii,” Ambros. in Psa. 118, Serm. 20, § 4.—Subst.: rĕfŭgus , i, m.: “refugos sequi,” fugitives, Tac. A. 13, 40; cf. id. H. 3, 61.
rĕfŭgus , a, um, adj. id.,