fugio
Britishnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of fugio
C18: Latin: I flee; one of the words inscribed on the coin
Example Sentences
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Rusty Banks’s “Dum Spectas Fugio” uses ticking clock sounds and electric bass to create grooves that can conjure turntablism, the Minimalism of Marc Mellits and some gentler moods.
From New York Times
The next ring features “FUGIO” and the sun, and the last says “CONTINENTAL CURRENCY.”
From Fox News
It was used for learning to swim, but all trace of it had disappeared before the time of Festus, whose date is uncertain, but who lived before the end of the fourth century— "In thermas fugio: sonas ad aurem, Piscinam peto: non licet natare."
From Project Gutenberg
It bears a print of a sun-dial, with the motto, Fugio, Mind Your Business.
From Project Gutenberg
Hobbes had a severe illness at Paris, which lasted six months, thus noticed in his metrical life: Dein per sex menses morbo decumbo propinque Accinctus morti; nec fugio, illa fugit.
From Project Gutenberg
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