φῠγή, ἡ,
(φεύγω) flight in battle, ἀΐξαντε φυγῇ [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.117; οὐδέ τις ἀλκὴ.. οὐδὲ φ. 22.306; ἐς φ. ἐτράποντο 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.89 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐς φ. ὁρμᾶσθαι, ὁρμᾶν, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 143, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.28 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φυγὴν αἱρεῖσθαι, ἀρεῖσθαι, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 481 (sed to be read αἴρονται), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 54; ἰσχυρὰν τὴν φ. τοῖς πολεμίοις.. ἐποίει 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.22; ἰσχυρὰ φ. ἐγένετο [prev. work] 7.1.26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; generally, flight, [[ NT.Matt.24.20 ] NT]; φ. ἑλέσθαι take to flight, [[ PGnom. 102 (2nd c.AD): _dative_ φυγῇ,] Refs 2nd c.AD+] used adverbially, in hasty flight, φυγᾷ πόδα νωμᾶν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 468 (Lyric poetry); φυγᾷ ποδὶ ἴχνος ἔφερε 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1468 (Lyric poetry); φ. ἐξαλύξωμεν ποδί [prev. author] “El.” 218, compare “Ba.” 437, “Hec.” 1066 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φεύγειν φ., φ. ἀναχωρεῖν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 195b, 221a; φ. φευκτέον 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Ind.” 16: _plural_, ἐν ταῖς φυγαῖς,] Refs 5th c.BC+] of the flight of the country people of Attica into the city, in the Pelop. war, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 243; φεύγουσί τινας οὐκ αἰσχρὰς φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 706c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 flight or escape from a thing, avoidance of it, with genitive, γάμον [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 395 (Lyric poetry); νόσων ἀμηχάνων φυγὰς ξυμπέφρασται 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 364 (Lyric poetry), compare “OC” 280; λέκτρων φυγαί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 799; ἀγαθῶν φυγάς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 69d; τῶν σιτίων 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.180 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to αἵρεσις, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 3p.62U., +others, compare 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.87; τὰς ὀρθὰς αἱρέσεις καὶ φ. 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Herc.” 1251.11 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to δίωξις, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Sententiae” 25. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]