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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; Cic. 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.
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    • Caesar, Gallic War, 7.17.5
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.10
    • Plautus, Mostellaria, 1.3
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 10.528
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 4.190
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    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 58
    • Cornelius Nepos, Miltiades, 7.5
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 36.6
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 37, 1.6
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    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 32, 37.5
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    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, 3.73
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 28
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    • Cicero, Topica, 4.22
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