I.made unsafe, disturbed, molested, infested; unquiet, unsafe (class.; cf. infensus).
I. Lit.: “via excursionibus barbarorum infesta,” Cic. Prov. Cons. 2, 4: “iter,” id. Phil. 12, 10: “civitas,” Liv. 3, 24: “omnia infesta serpentibus,” Sall. J. 89: “sua tuta omnia, infesta hostium (omnia),” Liv. 2, 49: “vita,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 11: “infestum agrum reddere,” to make unsafe, Liv. 2, 11: “mare infestum habere,” to disturb, render insecure, Cic. Att. 16, 1: “infestam habere Macedoniam,” Liv. 26, 24.—Comp.: “infestior salus,” Cic. Planc. 1: “senectus,” Liv. 1, 47. — Sup.: “infestissima pars Ciliciae,” Cic. Fam. 2, 10, 3.—
II. Transf., act., that renders unsafe, that acts in a hostile manner, hostile, inimical, troublesome, dangerous: irrupit in Galliam, quam sibi armis animisque infestam inimicamque cognovit, Cic. Phil. 10, 10, 21: “provincia huic victoriae maxime infesta,” id. Lig. 8, 24: “gens infestissima nomini Romano,” Sall. C. 52: “pestis infesta rei publicae,” Cic. Cat. 1, 5: “infestus in cognatos,” Auct. Her. 4, 40, 52: “exercitu infesto in agrum Sabinum profecti,” Liv. 2, 36; cf.: “infestis signis impetum facere,” Caes. B. C. 3, 93; “so freq.: infestis signis,” Cic. Font. 16; Caes. B. G. 6, 7; 7, 52; Liv. 2, 30 al.: “infestis pilis procurrere,” Caes. B. C. 3, 93: “infestis pilis proturbare,” Tac. H. 1, 31 fin.: “infesto spiculo aliquem petere,” Liv. 2, 20: “infesta tela ferre,” Verg. A. 5, 582: “infestis oculis conspici,” Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 17: “infesta virtutibus tempora,” Tac. Agr. 2: “scelus,” Cic. Clu. 66, 188: “atque inimicus clamor,” Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 5: “animo infestissimo aliquem intueri,” id. ib. 2, 5, 55: “bellum,” Liv. 9, 12: “missus morbus infesto a numine,” Juv. 13, 231.—Hence, adv.: infestē , hostilely, violently, outrageously: “quae illi infeste in nos fecerint,” Liv. 26, 13, 7; Vell. 2, 45, 3. — Comp., Liv. 2, 55; 8, 33; 28, 29.— Sup., Cic. Quint. 21 (with inimicissime), Quint. 11, 8, 10.
