Crossword-Solution: FUGA 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Bold in the first onset, they cannot bear a repulse, being easily thrown into confusion as soon as they turn their backs; and they trust to flight for safety, without attempting to rally, which the poet thought reprehensible in martial conflicts: “Ignavum scelus est tantum fuga;” and elsewhere— “In vitium culpæ ducit fuga, si caret arte.” The character given to the Teutones in the Roman History, may be applied to this people.

BABUYAN ISLANDS.—Horsburgh says (volume ii., page 442), coral-reefs line the shores of the harbour in Fuga; and the charts show there are other reefs about these islands.

The name it bore was the ley fuga, or "flight law," in accordance with which malefactors or political suspects taken by government agents from one locality to another, on the excuse of securing readier justice, were given by their captors a pretended chance to escape and were then shot while they ran! The only difference between this method and others of the sort employed by Spanish American autocrats to enforce obedience lay in its purpose.

Custom has made all speaking of a man's self vicious, and positively interdicts it, in hatred to the boasting that seems inseparable from the testimony men give of themselves: "In vitium ducit culpae fuga." ["The avoiding a mere fault often leads us into a greater." Or: "The escape from a fault leads into a vice" --Horace, De Arte Poetics, verse 31.] Instead of blowing the child's nose, this is to take his nose off altogether.

Custom has made all speaking of a man’s self vicious, and positively interdicts it, in hatred to the boasting that seems inseparable from the testimony men give of themselves: “In vitium ducit culpae fuga.” [“The avoiding a mere fault often leads us into a greater.” Or: “The escape from a fault leads into a vice” --Horace, De Arte Poetics, verse 31.] Instead of blowing the child’s nose, this is to take his nose off altogether.