单词 | regifuge |
释义 | regifugen. Roman History. The expulsion of the Etruscan kings from Rome in the 5th cent. b.c., after which the Republic was founded. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > escape or expulsion of Roman kings regifuge1654 1654 R. Vilvain in tr. Enchiridium Epigr. ii. xxviii. f. 33v (heading) Tarquins expulsion or Regi-fuge. a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) i. 49 The old Records of the Latines were burnt by the Gauls, an hundred and twenty years after the Regifuge. 1772 J. Swinton in Philos. Trans. 1771 (Royal Soc.) 61 88 They prevailed at Rome..till after the regifuge. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxxi. 206 At the epoch of Kleisthenês, which by a remarkable coincidence is the same as that of the regifuge at Rome. ?1871 E. A. Duyckinck Hist. World I. 483/1 The name of Brutus was given in the Latin language to an idiot; and hence arose a legend that the hero of the Regifuge..had simulated madness to deceive the Tarquins. 1946 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 36 217 Study of person- and place-names and of..one of the earliest historical documents of Italy..enable him to add an interesting chapter to the history of Etruria and incidentally to throw light on Rome at the time of the regifuge. 1994 Classical Q. New Ser. 44 170 ‘The King must die.’ Regifuge is, soberingly, thin cover for Regicide, both caught in the excentricity [sic] of mass will to supernal directive, risked to representation in every crisis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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