effect (v.) Copy link • effect (v.): effĭcio, fēci, fectum, 3: to e. so great progress, tantos progressus ef., Cic.: v. to accomplish. Phr.: to e. nothing, nihil agere, Cic.: without having e.'d anything, re infecta, Liv.; more fully, infectis iis quae quis agere destinaverit, Caes.: to e. the passage of a river with cavalry, equites, equitatum flumen trajicere, transducere, see L. G. § 246: to e. a saving, compendii aliquid facere, Cic. (v. saving).