to run off, flee away, make an escape: ripa, quo sinistrum cornu defugit, L.: iniurias fortunae defugiendo relinquas, i. e. by death.—Fig.,
to flee from, shun, avoid, escape from: proelium, Cs.:
contentiones: iudicia. —To decline, shrink
from, shun: auctoritatem consulatūs mei: sin timore
defugiant, Cs.
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