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in-fandus , a, um, adj.,
I.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.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (12):
    • Cicero, For Sestius, 55.117
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 1.251
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.3
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 8.489
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.479
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 2.79
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 28.77
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 23, 5
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 4, 32.12
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 59.8
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 29, 8.8
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 3, 8.45
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