eludere (to avoid a blow in fencing; hastas, Martisalis; also pugnam, Liv.; manus scrutantium, Petronius; vim legis, Suet.): declinare aliquid, or a re (to bend out of its way): vitare, evitare aliquid; fugere, effugere, defugere, subterfugere aliquid (the last, of doing it secretly): tergiversari: ficte et simulate loqui (to elude the point, in conversation; to avoid speaking one’s real opinion). elabi alicui rei or ex re (lo slip out). To elude a blow, ictum effugere; petitionem vitare; an attack, impetum alicujus declinare; aliquem eludere: a question, alio responsionem suam derivare: a danger, periculum vitare, effugere; periculo evadere: anything eludes anybody’s penetration, fugit aliquid aciem alicujus: to elude the law, legi (senatus consulto, etc.) fraudem facere: the law is eluded by anybody, fraus fit legi per aliquem (Liv. 10, 13).