perfugium (a secure place of shelter, open to all in time of danger; ☞ avoid profugium, which is of very doubtful authority): refugium (a place of refuge prepared, or, at least, thought of beforehand, in case of a retreat; only once in Cic.; confugium only in the poets; suffugium, in Ovid and Tac., is, if not a secret, at least an occasional and temporary place of shelter from inconveniences, Döderlein): asylum (an asylum provded for refugees): receptus (a place of secure retirement): receptaculum (place of retreat, shelter): to afford or offer refuge, perfugium praebere (Cic.); refugium dare (Liv.): to cut off all hope of refuge, excludere aliquem e portu et perfugio (Cic.); ultimum alicui perfugium claudere (Tac.); omnium rerum respectum abscidere alicui (Liv.): to betake one’s self for refuge, aliquo confugere, perfugere, refugere. To take refuge in anybody’s bosom, confugere ad alicujus sinum (Plin., Jun.).