FLIGHT Copy link • FLIGHTfuga. To take to flight, se dare, conferre or conjicere in fugam; fugam capere; sese fugae mandare: fugam petere [Vid: To FLY]: to put to flight, fugare; in fugam dare, vertere, convertere, conjicere (the two last, with the notion of eagerness and swiftness); in fugam impellere (Cic., Rabir. perd., 8, 82): profligare (so that he cannot again rally): to be in flight, in fuga esse: to endeavor to escape by flight, fuga (sibi) salutem petere: to escape by flight, ex fuga evadere; fuga se eripere: to cut off anybody’s flight, fugam intercludere; to hinder or stop it, fugam reprimere: to aid the flight of anybody with money, fugam alicujus pecunia sublevare. Flight from anything, fuga alicujus rei: vitatio, devitatio (the avoiding it). A flight of the fancy, *volucer animi motus: to venture on a flight of imagination, omne immensum peragrare mente animoque (Lucr., 1, 74). Flight (of birds), avium volatus. Flock (of birds), grex: agmen (e.g., corvorum, Verg.). Of stairs. To live up three flight of stairs, tribus scalis habitare (Martisalis, 1, 118, 7).