REGIFUGIUM, or FUGALIA (the king's flight), a festival of Rome, celebrated annually on the 24th of February, and, according to some ancient Calendaria, on the 24th of May. Verrius and Ovid say it was meant to memorialize the flight of King Tarquin from Rome, while a number of other writers, both ancient and modern, concur in regarding it as commemorative of the symbolical flight of the Rex Sacrum from the comitium.