who flees from wooers

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

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.—

Trop.

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. —

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.