infester
Dictionary entries
- Entry →infesto, infestare, infestavi, infestatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
vex (w/attacks), harass, molest; make unsafe, disturb; infest; damage, impair;
sg. pres. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
- G
FRAGMENTA
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...merito pietas homini tutissima virtus! Frag. XII. — Horrificoque infestant murmure tigres. Frag. XIII. Nam comtum me vernales alucitae..." - M
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..."- T
Liber XXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Romam hinc eum miserimus? age contra, quae illi infeste in nos fecerint repetite, ut ex eo quid speretis..."