A.one who flees from his country, either voluntarily, runaway, fugitive, or by legal sentence, exile, Hdt.1.150, 3.138, etc.; “ἐξεκηρύχθην φ.” S.OC430; ἐξελήλαμαι φ. ib.1292; “φ. πάσης τῆς χώρας” X.HG4.1.7; “τῆς πατρίδος” Pl.Alc.2.145b; “ἀνθρώπων” Plu.Ant.69; “φ. τῆς τῶν ἐξελασάντων πονηρίας” Th. 6.92; φ. ἐξ Ἤλιδος, ἐκ Λαρίσης, X.HG3.2.29, 6.4.34; “φυγάδ᾽ ἀπ᾽ οὐρανοῦ θεόν” A.Supp.214; “φ. ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν ὑπὸ Ἀθηναίων” X.HG1.5.19; φ. παρ᾽ ὑμῶν a deserter from . . , Id.Cyr.6.3.11; “ἔνθεν . . εἰμὶ φ.” Id.An. 5.6.23; “τοὺς δὲ φ. ἐντεῦθεν ἐποίησε” Lys.13.64, cf. X.HG4.1.40; κατάγειν φυγάδας to restore them, Hdt.5.31; φ. καθεῖναι, καταδέχεσθαι, X.HG2.2.20, 5.2.10: prov., “αἱ ἐλπίδες βόσκουσι φυγάδας” E.Ph. 396; “αἱ φ. πύλαι” D.H.1.46; μηδένα εἶναι . . ὑπερορίαν φυγάδα, is dub. in Pl.Lg.855c.
II. of an army, put to flight,S.Ant.108 (lyr.).