infeste
Dictionary entries
- Entry →infestus, infesta -um, infestior -or -us, infestissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
unsafe, dangerous; hostile; disturbed, molested, infested, unquiet;
voc. sg. (m.) - Entry →infeste, infestius, infestissime:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Lesser
dangerously, savagely; in a hostile manner; belligerently;
Examples
FRAGMENTA
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...merito pietas homini tutissima virtus! Frag. XII. — Horrificoque infestant murmure tigres. Frag. XIII. Nam comtum me vernales alucitae..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...aliquando mater et in re leviore aut minus infeste contra filium stare: tum lenior atque summissior decebit oratio..."
Liber Nonus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...ouans; nec non saxis et grandine ferri desuper infestant Tyrii geminoque repellunt aggere. quid faciat bellis obsessus..."Liber XXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Romam hinc eum miserimus? age contra, quae illi infeste in nos fecerint repetite, ut ex eo quid speretis..."