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fugitive
in
The Odyssey
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- I'm a fugitive now, you see.†
p. 295.1fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- But just as Telemachus prepared to launch,
praying, sacrificing to Pallas by the stern,
a man from a far-off country came toward him now,
a fugitive out of Argos: he had killed a man ...
He was a prophet, sprung of Melampus' line of seers,
Melampus who lived in Pylos, mother of flocks, some years ago,
rich among his Pylians, at home in his great high house.†p. 326.6 - Fleeing death at their hands, a dismal fate,
I am a fugitive now,
doomed to wander across this mortal world.†p. 328.3 - So take me aboard, hear a fugitive's prayer:
don't let them kill me—they're after me, well I know!†p. 328.3 - A fugitive, terrified of the people, up in arms
against him because he'd joined some Taphian pirates
out to attack Thesprotians, sworn allies of ours.†p. 351.9 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(fugitive as in: she is a fugitive) someone who is running away or hiding to avoid arrest or an unpleasant situation
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, "fugitive" may describe something that lasts for a very short time; as in "a fugitive impression."