(adjective) : invītus, a, um, perh. for in-vicitus; cf. Sanscr. va?*!-, to will; ava?*!as, unwilling; Gr. ἑκών, ἀ-έκων
* Against one's will, unwilling, reluctant (syn. coactus; class.).
* Of persons: invitus me vides,Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 23: ut viatores invitos consistere cogant,Caes. B. G. 4, 5: soli hoc contingit sapienti, ut nihil faciat invitus, nihil dolens, nihil coactus,Cic. Par. 5, 1: ego eum a me invitissim us dimisi,very unwillingly, very much against my will,id. Fam. 13, 63: Berenicen ab urbe dimisit (Titus) invitus invitam,Suet. Tit. 7: trahit invitam nova vis,Ov. M. 7, 19.— Abl. absol.: me (te, se, etc.) invito, against my (your, his, etc.) will, in spite of me, without my consent: vobis invitis,Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 7: si se invito transire conarentur,against his will,Caes. B. G. 1, 8: Sequanis invitis,id. ib. 1, 9: diis hominibusque invitis,Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 2: invito numine,Verg. A. 10, 31: invita Diana,Ov. M. 8, 395: invitā Minervā, against one's natural bent, Hor. A. P. 385: invita Minerva, id est adversante et repugnante natura,Cic. Off. 1, 31, 110: quod et illo et me invitissimo fiet,altogether contrary both to his inclination and my own,Cic. Att. 5, 21, 9. — With ut: invitus feci, ut L. Flaminium e senatu eicerem,Cic. de Sen. 12, 42.—With gen.: credidit, dominum non invitum fore hujus solutionis,would not be ill pleased with this payment,Dig. 16, 3, 11.
* Of things: invita in hoc loco versatur oratio,Cic. N. D. 3, 35, 85: invitae properes anni spem credere terrae,Verg. G. 1, 224: verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur,Hor. A. P. 311: dantur in invitos impia tura focos,Ov. H. 14, 26: lyra,id. Am. 3, 9, 24: ignes,id. M. 8, 514: oculis legere,id. H. 18, 4; cf.: vultu prospicere,Val. Fl. 7, 575: ope,i. e. furnished involuntarily,Ov. P. 2, 1, 16: invito sanguine,Val. Fl. 3, 391. — Adv.: invītē, against one's will, unwillingly: invite cepi Capuam,Cic. Att. 8, 3, 4 (dub.).— Comp.: invitius,Cic. de Or. 2, 89, 364.

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