INFECT Copy link • INFECTtransire in alios (PROP., to pass over to others; of diseases). To infect anybody, transire in aliquem (PROP., of diseases): inficere aliquem (to infect, as it were; figuratively, of vices, etc.): others also were infected, contagio morbi etiam in alios vulgata est: to be infected in the same manner, eadem vi morbi repleri. IMPROPR., figuratively. To infect anybody with his vices, vitiis suis inficere aliquem; vitia sua alicui allinere, affricare (the last, Sen., Ep., 7): to be infected with vices, errors, etc., infici or imbui vitiis; imbui erroribus: to be infected with wrong opinions, infici opinionum pravitate: to be infected with the desire of plundering, contagione quadam rapto gaudere: anybody is said to be infected with anything, contagio alicujus rei objectatur alicui (Liv., 9, 34; IMPROP.).