invitus

invītus, a, um, adj. [perh. for in-vicitus; cf. Sanscr. vaç-, to will; avaças, unwilling; Gr. hekôn, a-ekôn], against one ' s will, unwilling, reluctant (syn. coactus; class.).

I.

Of persons:

invitus me vides,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 23:

ut viatores invitos consistere cogant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 5:

soli hoc contingit sapienti, ut nihil faciat invitus, nihil dolens, nihil coactus,

Cic. Par. 5, 1:

ego eum a me invitissim us dimisi,

very unwillingly, very much against my will, id. Fam. 13, 63:

Berenicen ab urbe dimisit (Titus) invitus invitam,

Suet. Tit. 7:

trahit invitam nova vis,

Ov. M. 7, 19.— Abl. absol.: me (te, se, etc.) invito, against my ( your, his, etc.) will, in spite of me, without my consent:

vobis invitis,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 7:

si se invito transire conarentur,

against his will, Caes. B. G. 1, 8:

Sequanis invitis,

id. ib. 1, 9:

diis hominibusque invitis,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 2:

invito numine,

Verg. A. 10, 31:

invita Diana,

Ov. M. 8, 395: invitā Minervā, against one ' s natural bent, Hor. A. P. 385:

invita Minerva, id est adversante et repugnante natura,

Cic. Off. 1, 31, 110:

quod et illo et me invitissimo fiet,

altogether contrary both to his inclination and my own, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 9. — With ut:

invitus feci, ut L. Flaminium e senatu eicerem,

Cic. de Sen. 12, 42.—With gen.:

credidit, dominum non invitum fore hujus solutionis,

would not be ill pleased with this payment, Dig. 16, 3, 11.—

II.

Of things:

invita in hoc loco versatur oratio,

Cic. N. D. 3, 35, 85:

invitae properes anni spem credere terrae,

Verg. G. 1, 224:

verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur,

Hor. A. P. 311:

dantur in invitos impia tura focos,

Ov. H. 14, 26:

lyra,

id. Am. 3, 9, 24:

ignes,

id. M. 8, 514:

oculis legere,

id. H. 18, 4; cf.:

vultu prospicere,

Val. Fl. 7, 575:

ope,

i. e. furnished involuntarily, Ov. P. 2, 1, 16:

invito sanguine,

Val. Fl. 3, 391. — Adv.: invītē, against one ' s will, unwillingly:

invite cepi Capuam,

Cic. Att. 8, 3, 4 (dub.).— Comp.:

invitius,

Cic. de Or. 2, 89, 364.