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  • 1 fugax

    fŭgax, ācis, adj. [fugio], apt to flee, flying swiftly, swift, fleet (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf. fugitivus).
    I.
    Lit.:

    fugaces Lyncas et cervos cohibentis arcu,

    Hor. C. 4, 6, 33; so,

    caprea,

    Verg. A. 10, 724:

    ferae,

    id. ib. 9, 591:

    cervi,

    id. G. 3, 539:

    mors et fugacem persequitur virum,

    Hor. C. 3, 2, 14; cf.:

    comes atra (cura) premit sequiturque fugacem,

    id. S. 2, 7, 115:

    Pholoe,

    who flees from wooers, coy, id. C. 2, 5, 17:

    lympha,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 12.— Comp.:

    ventis, volucrique fugacior aurā,

    Ov. M. 13, 807.— Sup.:

    ignavissimus et fugacissimus hostis,

    Liv. 5, 28, 8.—As a term of vituperation, of a slave:

    lurco, edax, furax, fugax,

    runaway, Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 16.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    Fleeting, transitory: haec omnia quae habent speciem gloriae, contemne: brevia, fugacia, caduca existima; * Cic. Fam. 10, 12, 5:

    fugaces Labuntur anni,

    Hor. C. 2, 14, 1: blanditiae, Plin. poët. Ep. 7, 4, 7.— Comp.:

    non aliud pomum fugacius,

    that sooner spoils, Plin. 15, 12, 11, § 40.— Sup.:

    bona,

    Sen. Ep. 74 med. —
    B.
    With gen., fleeing, shunning, avoiding a thing:

    sollicitaeque fugax ambitionis eram,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 38:

    fugax rerum,

    id. ib. 3, 2, 9:

    fugacissimus gloriae,

    Sen. Ben. 4, 32.—Hence, adv.: fŭgācĭ-ter, in fleeing; only comp.:

    utrum a se audacius an fugacius ab hostibus geratur bellum,

    whether in prosecuting the war his own boldness or the enemy's disposition to flee was the greater, Liv. 28, 8, 3.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > fugax

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