infectus, a, um, adj. [2. in-factus].
I Not made or done , unwrought , unmade , undone , unperformed , unfinished (class.): ubi cognovit, opera quae facta infectaque sient, Cato R. R. 2, 1: ea, quae sunt facta, infecta refert, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 3: et id, quod indicatum non sit, pro infecto haberi oportere, Cic. Inv. 2, 27, 80: omnia pro infecto sint, let all be regarded as undone , Liv. 9, 11, 3: infecta pace, without having effected a peace , Ter. Eun. 53; Liv. 37, 1, 6; 32, 37, 5: damnum infectum, a loss which has not yet happened , but is only anticipated : qui in pariete communi demoliendo damni infecti (nomine) promiserit, Cic. Top. 4, 22; id. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 146; so, damni infecti, Plin. 36, 2, 2, § 6; cf. Dig. 39, 2, 2; 43, 15, 1, § 5; Gai. 4, 31 al. (for Verg. A. 6, 742, v. inficio): infectis iis, quae agere destinaverat, ab urbe proficiscitur, without having accomplished those things , Caes. B. C. 1, 33; so, re infectā, without accomplishing the matter , id. B. G. 7, 17, 5; Liv. 9, 32, 6; Quint. 9, 3, 73; cf.: infecta dicta re eveniant tua, Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 85: infectis rebus, Sall. J. 28, 4; Nep. Milt. 7, 5; and: infecto negotio, Sall. J. 58 fin. : victoriā, without having gained the victory , Liv. 9, 23, 11: argentum, uncoined , id. 34, 10, 4; cf. aurum, Verg. A. 10, 528: infecta dona facere, to render unmade , to revoke , Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 27: infectum reddere, to make void , of no effect , id. ib. 4, 3, 23: facta atque infecta, things done and not done , i. e. true and false , Verg. A. 4, 190; Stat. Th. 3, 430: rudis atque infecta materies, unwrought , Petr. 114: telasque calathosque infectaque pensa reponunt, unfinished , Ov. M. 4, 10.—
II Impossible : nihil jam infectum Metello credens, Sall. J. 76, 1; so, mira et paene infecta, Ap. Met. 1, 20, 10.