infandus

in-fandus, a, um, adj., unspeakable, unutterable, unheard of, unnatural, shocking, abominable (class.):

res crudelis, infanda,

Cic. de Or. 2, 79, 322:

impurum atque infandum corpus,

id. Sest. 55, 117:

epulae,

i. e. of human flesh, Liv. 23, 5 fin.:

dolor,

Verg. A. 2, 3:

amor,

id. ib. 4, 85:

labores,

id. ib. 1, 597:

bellum,

id. ib. 7, 583:

mors,

id. ib. 10, 673:

dies,

id. ib. 2, 132:

Cyclopes,

id. ib. 3, 644:

stuprum,

Liv. 1, 59, 8:

caedes,

id. 4, 32, 12; 29, 8, 8; Plin. 28, 7, 23, § 77.— In the neutr. plur. absol.:

infanda furens,

Verg. A. 8, 489: jam fero infandissima, Varus ap. Quint. 3, 8, 45.—In the neutr. as exclamation:

navibus, infandum! amissis,

oh, woe unutterable, Verg. A. 1, 251; so,

infandum! sistunt amnes,

id. G. 1, 479.