infect Copy link Outline I. Lit.1. expr. by contāgio s. contāgium, with a verb2. coinquĭno, 1 (rare)3. infĭcio, fēci, fectum, 3 (rare in this sense)II. Fig.1. infĭcio, 3 (in good or bad sense)2. contāmĭno, 1 • infect: I. Lit.: 1. expr. by contāgio s. contāgium, with a verb: (the disease) i.s the whole flock, universum gregem contagione prosternit, Col. 7, 5, med.: lest one should i. the rest, ne quis contagione ceteros labefaciat, Col. 6, 5: the disease i.d others, contagium morbi in alios vulgatum est, Curt. 9, 10, init. 2. coinquĭno, 1 (rare): Col. 7, 5. 3. infĭcio, fēci, fectum, 3 (rare in this sense): cf. Tac. Ann. 6, 7, plures infecti quasi valetudine et contactu: where, however, the expr. is fig. See also infection. II. Fig.: of vice: 1. infĭcio, 3 (in good or bad sense): to be i.'d with vices (by example), vitiis infici, Cic. Leg. 3, 13, 30. 2. contāmĭno, 1: more fully, contagione (alicujus rei) c., Cic. (?) Dom. 41, 108: v. to pollute.
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.).