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transfŭga , ae, comm. transfugio,
I.one who runs over to the enemy, a deserter (cf. perfuga).
II. Transf., in gen.: “transfuga divitum Partes linquere gestio,Hor. C. 3, 16, 23: “paucissimi Quiritium medieinam attigere, et ipsi statim ad Graecos transfugae,Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 17: secuti sunt quasi transfugam, quem ducem sequebantur. Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 25: “mundi,” i. e. from the Roman empire, Luc. 8, 335: “ne fias istā transfuga sorte vide,Mart. 14, 131, 2; Claud. in Eutr. 1, 15: “metalli,Dig. 49, 15, 12 fin.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Tacitus, Germania, 12
    • Suetonius, Caligula, 47
    • Lucan, Civil War, 8.335
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 29.17
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 8.14.25
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 1.44
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