Lewis Short
(adjective) : infectus, a, um, 2. in-factus.
* 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. 1, 1, 8; 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; Cic. 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.
* Impossible: nihil jam infectum Metello credens,Sall. J. 76, 1; so, mira et paene infecta,App. M. 1, p. 111, 25.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary