Strong G5343φεύγω
to flee
- Transliteration
- pheugō
- Pronunciation
- fyoo'-go
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Apparently a primary verb; to run away (literally or figuratively); by implication to shun; by analogy to vanish: - escape flee (away).
Detailed definition
φεύγω
[in LXX chiefly for נוּס, also for בָּרַח, etc.;]
to flee from or away, take flight: absol., Mat.8:33 26:56, Mrk.5:14 14:50, Luk.8:34, Jhn.10:12, Act.7:29; before εἰς, Mat.2:13 10:23 24:16 (WH, txt.), Mrk.13:14, Luk.21:21, Rev.12:6; ἐπί, with accusative loc., Mat.24:16 (WH, mg.); ἐκ, Act.27:30; ἀπό, with genitive loc. (cl.), Mrk.16:8; id. with genitive of person(s) (as in Heb.), Jhn.10:5, Jas.4:7. Metaphorical: absol., Rev.16:20; with accusative of thing(s), 1Co.6:18, Heb.11:34 (see M, Fr., 116); opposite to διώκειν, 1Ti.6:11, 2Ti.2:22; before άπό, with genitive of person(s), Rev.9:6; άπὸ τ. προσώπου, Rev.20:11; with genitive of thing(s), Mat.3:7 (M, Pr., l.with) Mat.23:33, Luk.3:7, 1Co.10:14 (cf. ἀπο-, δια-, ἐκ-, κατα-φεύγω).†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for נוּס, also for בָּרַח, etc.;]
to flee from or away, take flight: absol., Mat.8:33 26:56, Mrk.5:14 14:50, Luk.8:34, Jhn.10:12, Act.7:29; before εἰς, Mat.2:13 10:23 24:16 (WH, txt.), Mrk.13:14, Luk.21:21, Rev.12:6; ἐπί, with accusative loc., Mat.24:16 (WH, mg.); ἐκ, Act.27:30; ἀπό, with genitive loc. (cl.), Mrk.16:8; id. with genitive of person(s) (as in Heb.), Jhn.10:5, Jas.4:7. Metaphorical: absol., Rev.16:20; with accusative of thing(s), 1Co.6:18, Heb.11:34 (see M, Fr., 116); opposite to διώκειν, 1Ti.6:11, 2Ti.2:22; before άπό, with genitive of person(s), Rev.9:6; άπὸ τ. προσώπου, Rev.20:11; with genitive of thing(s), Mat.3:7 (M, Pr., l.with) Mat.23:33, Luk.3:7, 1Co.10:14 (cf. ἀπο-, δια-, ἐκ-, κατα-φεύγω).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5343 appears in 31 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- flee26
- escape3
- fleeth2
- let1
First verses
- Matthew 2:13And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
- Matthew 3:7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
- Matthew 8:33And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.
- Matthew 10:23But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
- Matthew 23:33Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
- Matthew 24:16Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains:
- Matthew 26:56But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
- Mark 5:14And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
- Mark 13:14But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judea flee to the mountains:
- Mark 14:50And they all forsook him, and fled.
- Mark 14:52And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
- Mark 16:8And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.
- Luke 3:7Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
- Luke 8:34When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.
- Luke 21:21Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
- John 10:5And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
- John 10:12But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
- John 10:13The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
- Acts 7:29Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
- Acts 27:30And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
φεύγω,
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.472, etc.: _Epic dialect_)]infinitive φευγέμεν, φευγέμεναι, [Refs (10.147, 21.13)]; imperfect ἔφευγον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (22.158, etc., poetical φεῦγον 9.478, 7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 5.8, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.13: iterative φεύγεσκον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.461, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.43)]: future φεύξομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.307, etc.)]; also φευξοῦμαι in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus and Comedy texts, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 341, 346, “Hel.” 500, 1041, “Ba.” 659, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 203 (codex R), 1129, “Pl.” 447, “Av.” 932 (ἀπο-), 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 283)] (but uncertain where found in Attic dialect Prose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 635c, +others, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 38.19)]; φευξεῖται is uncertain reading in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IPE” 12.24.11 (Olbia, 4th c.BC))]; future active ἐκ-φεύξω only late, variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-4th c.BC: Aesopus Fabularum Scriptor 349b, cf. Chambry ii p.479):)]aorist ἔφῠγον, Ionic dialect φύγεσκον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.316)]: perfect πέφευγα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.154 codices (see. below 11.1a))]; optative πεφεύγοι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.609 (ἐκ-πεφευγοίην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 840))], participle πεφευγότες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.12)]; participle perfect passive πεφυγμένος in active sense, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.488, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.18, etc. (in _passive_ sense, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 423))]; Epic dialect πεφυζότες (compare φύζα) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.6, 528, 532, 22.1, later _sing._ πεφυζώς 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 128)]; Aeolic dialect πεφύγγων, see at {φυγγάνω}:—middle, μὴ φεύγησθε Anon.Hist. in [Refs (“PLit.Lond.” 115:)]aorist 1 δια-φεύξασθαι Decrees [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus in 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιστολαί” 25.)]
I absolutely, flee, take flight, opposed to διώκω, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.157, etc.; βῆ φεύγων ἐπὶ πόντον 2.665; πῇ φεύγει; 8.94; πόσε φεύγετ; 16.422; ποῖ φύγωμεν.. χθονό; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 777 (Lyric poetry); ποῖ τις οὖν φύγ; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 403 (Lyric poetry); ἐνθένδε ἐκεῖσε φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 176b: with Preps., φ. ἀπό τινος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.120; φεύξονται ἀφ᾽ ἑαυτῶν εἰς φιλοσοφίαν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 168a, etc.)]; ἐκ πολέμοιο, ἐκ θανάτοιο, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.118, 20.350; ἐκ κακῶν πεφευγέναι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 437, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.65; ὑπὲκ κακοῦ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.700, compare 17.461 (rarely with _genitive_ only, πεφυγμένος ἦεν ἀέθλων (see. below 11) 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.18; τῆς νόσου πεφευγέναι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1044); φ. ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.140, 159, +others)]; ἐπὶ Σάρδεων, ἐπὶ τὸν Ἑλικῶνα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.1, “Ages.” 2.11; πρὸς τὸ ὄρος [prev. author] “HG” 3.5.19; ὑπὸ γᾶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 175 (Lyric poetry); ὑπὸ δελφῖνος ἰχθύες φ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.23, compare 554 (compare below 111.2): with _accusative_ _cognate_, φύγε λαιψηρὸν δρόμον)] ran the course full swiftly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.121; τίνα φυγὴν φευξούμεθ; 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1041)]; φ. τὴν παρὰ θάλασσαν (i.e. ὁδόν) flee by the shore route, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.12; compare below 111)]; for φυγῇ φεύγειν, see[Refs (below 11.1, φυγή 1.1.)]
I.2 present and imperfect tenses properly express only the purpose or endeavour to get away: hence participle φεύγων is added to the compound Verbs καταφεύγω, ἐκφεύγω, προφεύγω, to distinguish the attempt from the accomplishment, βέλτερον, ὃς φεύγων προφύγῃ κακὸν ἠὲ ἁλώῃ it is better that one should flee and escape than stay and be caught, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.81; φεύγων ἐκφεύγει 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.95, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 177; φ. καταφυγεῖν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.23.)]
I.3 φ. εἰς.. have recourse to.. take refuge in.., ἐς τοὺς ἀφώνους μάρτυρας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1076.)]
I.4 with infinitive, shun or shrink from doing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.76, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.13, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 26a)]; with infinitive omitted, φεύγουσι γάρ τοι χοἱ θρασεῖς shrink back, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 580.)]
II with accusative, flee, avoid, escape, Ἕκτορα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.327, etc.; φ. τινὰ ἐκ μάχης 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.104; φ. ἐς τὴν Ἀσίην τοὺς Σκύθας [prev. author] 4.12; φ. θάνατον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.60; ἔνθ᾽ ἄλλοι μὲν πάντες, ὅσοι φύγον αἰπὺν ὄλεθρον, οἴκοι ἔσαν πόλεμόν τε πεφευγότες ἠδὲ θάλασσαν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.11)]; ἔφυγον κακόν, εὗρον ἄμεινον, formula used by μύσται, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.259)]; with modal dative, φ. ὄνειδος λόγοις, ἀμαχανίαν ἔργῳ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.90, “P.” 9.92)]; avoid, shun, χρὴ.. φεύγειν τὰ παχύνοντα [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “περὶ λεπτυνούσης διαίτης - CMG” 12; τὴν ἀργίαν καὶ τὴν ἀκινησίαν τοῦ σώματος 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.93, compare 46, +others)]; φόνον φ. flee the consequences of the murder, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 796; αἷμα συγγενὲς φ. χθονός [prev. author] “Supp.” 148; τὰν Διὸς μῆτιν φ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 906 (Lyric poetry); ὀσμὴν.., μὴ βάλῃ, πεφευγότες 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 412; φεύγων φυγῇ τὸ γῆρας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 195b; ἐς πόντον.. φύγε πέτρας νηῦς 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.131)]; οὐδεμία [πόλις] πέφευγε (sed perhaps to be read ἀπέφυγε) δουλοσύνην πρὸς Ἱπποκράτεος at the hands of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.154)]: participle perfect passive also retains the accusative in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] in periphrastic phrases, μοῖραν δ᾽ οὔ τινά φημι πεφυγμένον ἔμμεναι ἀνδρῶν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.488; πεφυγμένον ἔμμεν ὄλεθρον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.455; οὔ οἱ νῦν ἔτι γ᾽ ἔστι πεφυγμένον ἄμμε γενέσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.219, compare “hymnus ad Venerem” 34:)] — but in passive sense, τὸ πάραυτα πεφυγμένον κακόν Epicur. [prev. cited]
II.b seek to avoid, shirk, στρατείαν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.162; εἰ τοῦτο φεύξονται καὶ μὴ 'θελήσουσι ποιεῖν [prev. author] 20.138)]; so in aorist, ἢν φύγῃ τις, ζημιοῦν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 717.)]
II.2 of things, ἡνίοχον φύγον ἡνία escaped, slipped from his hands, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.465; Νέστορα δ᾽ ἐκ χειρῶν φύγον ἡνία 8.137, compare 11.128)]; τὸ φεῦγον the part which slips, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 10.9, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “κατ᾽ ἰητρεῖον” 9, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).735: with double _accusative_, ποῖόν σε ἔπος φύγεν ἕρκος ὀδόντων 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.350, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.64, etc.)]
II.2.b of wine, 'go off', turn sour, [Refs (Gp. 7.7.8.)]
III flee one's country, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.478, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.259)]; οἱ φεύγοντες the exiles, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.24, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 7.6; πατρίδα φ. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.228, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.24; τὴν αὑτοῦ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.26; ἅπασαν τὴν Ἀθηναίων ξυμμαχίδα “IG” 12.10.30; φ. ἐξ Ἄργεος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.224, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.85)]; ἐξ Ἀθηνέων, ἐκ τῆς πατρίδος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.103, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.3.3.)]
III.2 φ. ὑπὸ Σκυθέων to be expelled, driven out by.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.125)]: but especially to be exiled, φ. ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 5.30, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.1.27)]; φ. ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου by their sentence, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.44: also with _accusative_, φ. Πεισιστρατίδας 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.62.)]
III.3 absolutely, go into exile, live in banishment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1668 (troch.), 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.2.9, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 242b; δύο ἔτη φευγέτω [prev. author] “Lg.” 867c)]; φ. ἀειφυγίαν to be banished for life, [Refs ([prev. work] 871d, +others)]; φεόγειν Ἀμφίπολιν ἀειφυγίην [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“SIG” 194.3, compare 24 (Amphipolis, 4th c.BC))]; but also ἐν ἀειφυγίᾳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 877e; φεύγων ἀπ᾽ οἴκων ἃς ἐγὼ φεύγω φυγάς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 976)]; φεύγοντες being in exile, opposed to φυγόντες having gone into exile, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 14.33)]; with play on words, “μέχρι τίνος φεύξῃ, Ἀρκαδίω; καὶ ὅς, ἔς τ᾽ ἂν τοὺς ἀφίκωμαι οἳ οὐκ ἴσασι Φίλιππον” [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Duris Epigrammaticus 3 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus)]
IV as law-term (mostly in present and imperfect, but[Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.4 (see. below)))], to be accused or prosecuted at law: ὁ φεύγων the accused, defendant, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 893, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 405b, etc.; opposed to διώκω, οὔτε φεύγων ἁλοὺς οὔτε διώκων ἡττηθείς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.66)]; with accusative, φ. γραφάς, δίκην, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 442 (Lyric poetry), “Nu.” 167; ὑπό τινος δίκας φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 19c, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 49.1; οὐδενὶ πώποτε οὔτε ἡμεῖς οὔτε ἐκεῖνος δίκην οὔτε ἐδικασάμεθα οὔτε ἐφύγομεν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator [same place]; φ. ἀπολογίας 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.201)]; the crime being added in genitive, φόνου δίκην φ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.9; γραφὰς φ. παρανόμων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.235)]; more frequently with genitive only, φ. φόνου to be charged with murder, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 10.31, 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 133, etc.; φ. δειλίας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1129; ξενίας [prev. author] “V.” 718 (_anapaest meter_))]; with genitive of the penalty, ἐὰν.. φεύγῃ δεσμῶν [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“OGI” 218.92 (Ilium, 3rd c.BC))]; also περὶ θανάτου φ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.95; φ. ἐπὶ μηνύσει τινός 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.18)]; ἀσεβείας φ. ὑπό τινος is accused of impiety by.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 35d)]; rarely of things, τὸ φεῦγον ψήφισμα the decree that is on its defence, the decree in question, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.58:—in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.214 αἰτίην φ.)] has the older sense, flee from a charge, quit one's country on account of a charge.
IV.2 plead in defence, δεῖ τοί σε φεύγειν.. ὡς οὐκ ἔχουσι κῦρος [οἱ νόμοι] [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 390)]; ἔφευγε μὴ εἰδέναι pleaded ignorance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 263)], (Cf. Latin fugio, Gothic biugan 'bend', etc.)
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.472, etc.: _Epic dialect_)]infinitive φευγέμεν, φευγέμεναι, [Refs (10.147, 21.13)]; imperfect ἔφευγον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (22.158, etc., poetical φεῦγον 9.478, 7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 5.8, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.13: iterative φεύγεσκον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.461, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.43)]: future φεύξομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.307, etc.)]; also φευξοῦμαι in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus and Comedy texts, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 341, 346, “Hel.” 500, 1041, “Ba.” 659, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 203 (codex R), 1129, “Pl.” 447, “Av.” 932 (ἀπο-), 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 283)] (but uncertain where found in Attic dialect Prose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 635c, +others, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 38.19)]; φευξεῖται is uncertain reading in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IPE” 12.24.11 (Olbia, 4th c.BC))]; future active ἐκ-φεύξω only late, variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-4th c.BC: Aesopus Fabularum Scriptor 349b, cf. Chambry ii p.479):)]aorist ἔφῠγον, Ionic dialect φύγεσκον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.316)]: perfect πέφευγα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.154 codices (see. below 11.1a))]; optative πεφεύγοι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.609 (ἐκ-πεφευγοίην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 840))], participle πεφευγότες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.12)]; participle perfect passive πεφυγμένος in active sense, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.488, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.18, etc. (in _passive_ sense, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 423))]; Epic dialect πεφυζότες (compare φύζα) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.6, 528, 532, 22.1, later _sing._ πεφυζώς 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 128)]; Aeolic dialect πεφύγγων, see at {φυγγάνω}:—middle, μὴ φεύγησθε Anon.Hist. in [Refs (“PLit.Lond.” 115:)]aorist 1 δια-φεύξασθαι Decrees [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus in 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιστολαί” 25.)]
I absolutely, flee, take flight, opposed to διώκω, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.157, etc.; βῆ φεύγων ἐπὶ πόντον 2.665; πῇ φεύγει; 8.94; πόσε φεύγετ; 16.422; ποῖ φύγωμεν.. χθονό; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 777 (Lyric poetry); ποῖ τις οὖν φύγ; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 403 (Lyric poetry); ἐνθένδε ἐκεῖσε φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 176b: with Preps., φ. ἀπό τινος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.120; φεύξονται ἀφ᾽ ἑαυτῶν εἰς φιλοσοφίαν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 168a, etc.)]; ἐκ πολέμοιο, ἐκ θανάτοιο, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.118, 20.350; ἐκ κακῶν πεφευγέναι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 437, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.65; ὑπὲκ κακοῦ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.700, compare 17.461 (rarely with _genitive_ only, πεφυγμένος ἦεν ἀέθλων (see. below 11) 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.18; τῆς νόσου πεφευγέναι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1044); φ. ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.140, 159, +others)]; ἐπὶ Σάρδεων, ἐπὶ τὸν Ἑλικῶνα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.1, “Ages.” 2.11; πρὸς τὸ ὄρος [prev. author] “HG” 3.5.19; ὑπὸ γᾶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 175 (Lyric poetry); ὑπὸ δελφῖνος ἰχθύες φ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.23, compare 554 (compare below 111.2): with _accusative_ _cognate_, φύγε λαιψηρὸν δρόμον)] ran the course full swiftly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.121; τίνα φυγὴν φευξούμεθ; 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1041)]; φ. τὴν παρὰ θάλασσαν (i.e. ὁδόν) flee by the shore route, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.12; compare below 111)]; for φυγῇ φεύγειν, see[Refs (below 11.1, φυγή 1.1.)]
I.2 present and imperfect tenses properly express only the purpose or endeavour to get away: hence participle φεύγων is added to the compound Verbs καταφεύγω, ἐκφεύγω, προφεύγω, to distinguish the attempt from the accomplishment, βέλτερον, ὃς φεύγων προφύγῃ κακὸν ἠὲ ἁλώῃ it is better that one should flee and escape than stay and be caught, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.81; φεύγων ἐκφεύγει 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.95, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 177; φ. καταφυγεῖν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.23.)]
I.3 φ. εἰς.. have recourse to.. take refuge in.., ἐς τοὺς ἀφώνους μάρτυρας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1076.)]
I.4 with infinitive, shun or shrink from doing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.76, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.13, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 26a)]; with infinitive omitted, φεύγουσι γάρ τοι χοἱ θρασεῖς shrink back, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 580.)]
II with accusative, flee, avoid, escape, Ἕκτορα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.327, etc.; φ. τινὰ ἐκ μάχης 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.104; φ. ἐς τὴν Ἀσίην τοὺς Σκύθας [prev. author] 4.12; φ. θάνατον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.60; ἔνθ᾽ ἄλλοι μὲν πάντες, ὅσοι φύγον αἰπὺν ὄλεθρον, οἴκοι ἔσαν πόλεμόν τε πεφευγότες ἠδὲ θάλασσαν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.11)]; ἔφυγον κακόν, εὗρον ἄμεινον, formula used by μύσται, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.259)]; with modal dative, φ. ὄνειδος λόγοις, ἀμαχανίαν ἔργῳ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.90, “P.” 9.92)]; avoid, shun, χρὴ.. φεύγειν τὰ παχύνοντα [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “περὶ λεπτυνούσης διαίτης - CMG” 12; τὴν ἀργίαν καὶ τὴν ἀκινησίαν τοῦ σώματος 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.93, compare 46, +others)]; φόνον φ. flee the consequences of the murder, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 796; αἷμα συγγενὲς φ. χθονός [prev. author] “Supp.” 148; τὰν Διὸς μῆτιν φ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 906 (Lyric poetry); ὀσμὴν.., μὴ βάλῃ, πεφευγότες 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 412; φεύγων φυγῇ τὸ γῆρας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 195b; ἐς πόντον.. φύγε πέτρας νηῦς 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.131)]; οὐδεμία [πόλις] πέφευγε (sed perhaps to be read ἀπέφυγε) δουλοσύνην πρὸς Ἱπποκράτεος at the hands of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.154)]: participle perfect passive also retains the accusative in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] in periphrastic phrases, μοῖραν δ᾽ οὔ τινά φημι πεφυγμένον ἔμμεναι ἀνδρῶν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.488; πεφυγμένον ἔμμεν ὄλεθρον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.455; οὔ οἱ νῦν ἔτι γ᾽ ἔστι πεφυγμένον ἄμμε γενέσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.219, compare “hymnus ad Venerem” 34:)] — but in passive sense, τὸ πάραυτα πεφυγμένον κακόν Epicur. [prev. cited]
II.b seek to avoid, shirk, στρατείαν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.162; εἰ τοῦτο φεύξονται καὶ μὴ 'θελήσουσι ποιεῖν [prev. author] 20.138)]; so in aorist, ἢν φύγῃ τις, ζημιοῦν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 717.)]
II.2 of things, ἡνίοχον φύγον ἡνία escaped, slipped from his hands, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.465; Νέστορα δ᾽ ἐκ χειρῶν φύγον ἡνία 8.137, compare 11.128)]; τὸ φεῦγον the part which slips, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 10.9, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “κατ᾽ ἰητρεῖον” 9, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).735: with double _accusative_, ποῖόν σε ἔπος φύγεν ἕρκος ὀδόντων 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.350, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.64, etc.)]
II.2.b of wine, 'go off', turn sour, [Refs (Gp. 7.7.8.)]
III flee one's country, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.478, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.259)]; οἱ φεύγοντες the exiles, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.24, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 7.6; πατρίδα φ. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.228, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.24; τὴν αὑτοῦ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.26; ἅπασαν τὴν Ἀθηναίων ξυμμαχίδα “IG” 12.10.30; φ. ἐξ Ἄργεος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.224, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.85)]; ἐξ Ἀθηνέων, ἐκ τῆς πατρίδος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.103, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.3.3.)]
III.2 φ. ὑπὸ Σκυθέων to be expelled, driven out by.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.125)]: but especially to be exiled, φ. ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 5.30, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.1.27)]; φ. ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου by their sentence, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.44: also with _accusative_, φ. Πεισιστρατίδας 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.62.)]
III.3 absolutely, go into exile, live in banishment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1668 (troch.), 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.2.9, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 242b; δύο ἔτη φευγέτω [prev. author] “Lg.” 867c)]; φ. ἀειφυγίαν to be banished for life, [Refs ([prev. work] 871d, +others)]; φεόγειν Ἀμφίπολιν ἀειφυγίην [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“SIG” 194.3, compare 24 (Amphipolis, 4th c.BC))]; but also ἐν ἀειφυγίᾳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 877e; φεύγων ἀπ᾽ οἴκων ἃς ἐγὼ φεύγω φυγάς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 976)]; φεύγοντες being in exile, opposed to φυγόντες having gone into exile, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 14.33)]; with play on words, “μέχρι τίνος φεύξῃ, Ἀρκαδίω; καὶ ὅς, ἔς τ᾽ ἂν τοὺς ἀφίκωμαι οἳ οὐκ ἴσασι Φίλιππον” [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Duris Epigrammaticus 3 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus)]
IV as law-term (mostly in present and imperfect, but[Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.4 (see. below)))], to be accused or prosecuted at law: ὁ φεύγων the accused, defendant, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 893, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 405b, etc.; opposed to διώκω, οὔτε φεύγων ἁλοὺς οὔτε διώκων ἡττηθείς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.66)]; with accusative, φ. γραφάς, δίκην, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 442 (Lyric poetry), “Nu.” 167; ὑπό τινος δίκας φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 19c, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 49.1; οὐδενὶ πώποτε οὔτε ἡμεῖς οὔτε ἐκεῖνος δίκην οὔτε ἐδικασάμεθα οὔτε ἐφύγομεν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator [same place]; φ. ἀπολογίας 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.201)]; the crime being added in genitive, φόνου δίκην φ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.9; γραφὰς φ. παρανόμων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.235)]; more frequently with genitive only, φ. φόνου to be charged with murder, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 10.31, 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 133, etc.; φ. δειλίας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1129; ξενίας [prev. author] “V.” 718 (_anapaest meter_))]; with genitive of the penalty, ἐὰν.. φεύγῃ δεσμῶν [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“OGI” 218.92 (Ilium, 3rd c.BC))]; also περὶ θανάτου φ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.95; φ. ἐπὶ μηνύσει τινός 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.18)]; ἀσεβείας φ. ὑπό τινος is accused of impiety by.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 35d)]; rarely of things, τὸ φεῦγον ψήφισμα the decree that is on its defence, the decree in question, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.58:—in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.214 αἰτίην φ.)] has the older sense, flee from a charge, quit one's country on account of a charge.
IV.2 plead in defence, δεῖ τοί σε φεύγειν.. ὡς οὐκ ἔχουσι κῦρος [οἱ νόμοι] [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 390)]; ἔφευγε μὴ εἰδέναι pleaded ignorance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 263)], (Cf. Latin fugio, Gothic biugan 'bend', etc.)