invade Copy link Outline 1. invādo, si, sum, 3 (with in and acc.)2. bellum infĕro, 3, irr. (with dat.)3. incurro, 3 (to make a sudden incursion) • invade: 1. invādo, si, sum, 3 (with in and acc.): Antony has i.d Gaul, Dolabella Asia, in Galliam invasit Antonius, in Asiam Dolabella, Cic. Ph. 11, 2, 4. (N.B.--Not in this sense with direct acc.: v. to attack.) 2. bellum infĕro, 3, irr. (with dat.): Xerxes having i.d Europe, quum Xerxes bellum inferret Europae, Nep. Them. 2: to i. Scythia, Scythis bellum inf., id. Milt. 3: Just.: v. war. 3. incurro, 3 (to make a sudden incursion): v. inroad. Phr.: he i.d the territory of the Olcades, in Olcadum fines exercitum induxit, Liv. 21, 5: to i. Africa (by crossing the sea), in Africam transmittere, Liv. 21, 17: after this he i.d India, post haec Indiam petit, Just. 12, 7: sometimes proficiscor is used in this sense: to i. Britain, in Britanniam proficisci, Caes. B. G. 4, 20.