infectus

1.

infectus, a, um, adj. [2. in-factus].

I.

Not made or done, unwrought, unmade, undone, unperformed, unfinished (class.):

ubi cognovit, opera quae facta infectaque sient,

Cato, R. R. 2, 1:

ea, quae sunt facta, infecta refert,

Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 3:

et id, quod indicatum non sit, pro infecto haberi oportere,

Cic. Inv. 2, 27, 80:

omnia pro infecto sint,

let all be regarded as undone, Liv. 9, 11, 3:

infecta pace,

without having effected a peace, Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 8; Liv. 37, 1, 6; 32, 37, 5: damnum infectum, a loss which has not yet happened, but is only anticipated:

qui in pariete communi demoliendo damni infecti (nomine) promiserit,

Cic. Top. 4, 22; id. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 146; so,

damni infecti,

Plin. 36, 2, 2, § 6; cf. Dig. 39, 2, 2; 43, 15, 1, § 5; Gai. 4, 31 al. (for Verg. A. 6, 742, v. inficio):

infectis iis, quae agere destinaverat, ab urbe proficiscitur,

without having accomplished those things, Caes. B. C. 1, 33; so,

re infectā,

without accomplishing the matter, id. B. G. 7, 17, 5; Liv. 9, 32, 6; Quint. 9, 3, 73; cf.:

infecta dicta re eveniant tua,

Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 85:

infectis rebus,

Sall. J. 28, 4; Nep. Milt. 7, 5; and:

infecto negotio,

Sall. J. 58 fin.:

victoriā,

without having gained the victory, Liv. 9, 23, 11:

argentum,

uncoined, id. 34, 10, 4; cf.

aurum,

Verg. A. 10, 528:

infecta dona facere,

to render unmade, to revoke, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 27:

infectum reddere,

to make void, of no effect, id. ib. 4, 3, 23: facta atque infecta, things done and not done, i. e. true and false, Verg. A. 4, 190; Stat. Th. 3, 430:

rudis atque infecta materies,

unwrought, Petr. 114:

telasque calathosque infectaque pensa reponunt,

unfinished, Ov. M. 4, 10.—

II.

Impossible:

nihil jam infectum Metello credens,

Sall. J. 76, 1; so,

mira et paene infecta,

App. M. 1, p. 111, 25.

2.

infectus, a, um, Part., from inficio.

3.

infectus, ūs, m. [inficio], a dyeing (post-Aug.).—In abl.:

lanarum,

Plin. 8, 48, 73, § 193.