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invītus , a, um, adj. perh. for in-vicitus; cf. Sanscr. va?*!-, to will; ava?*!as, unwilling; Gr. ἑκών, ἀ-έκων,
I.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.—
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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 13.63
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