Infesto, infestas, infestâre Plin. To molest with inuasions: to vexe: to trouble.Charybdis infestar aquas. Oui. Arbor musco rubro infestatur. Plin. The tree is cortupted and hurt with mosse.Infestare rudes animos superstitione. Col. To trouble ignotant mindes with superstition.Infestã tur vineta austris & Euris. Co. Are molested or hurt.Infestat infantes editos plenilunium. Plin. The full moone molesteth children newly borne.Infestatur Asia angustijs. Plin. Asia is troubled with many streights or narrow passages.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
infesto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [infestus], to attack, trouble, molest, disturb, infest (mostly post-Aug.). I.Lit.: Scylla latus dextrum, laevum Charybdis infestant, Ov. M. 13, 730: eas insulas infestari beluis, Plin. 6, 32, 37, 205: morbis, id. 17, 24, 37, 216: mari infestato latrociniis, Vell. 2, 73: vulnera et nimius calor et nimium frigus infestant, Cels. 5, 26, 6 fin.: hostem, Front. Strat. 2, 3, 16: sagittis infestari, id. ib. 2, 13, 7; Sen. Ep. 71, 18; Lact. Epit. 59, 7.— II.Transf., in gen., to attack, destroy, injure, impair: vinum minus infestat nervos, Plin. 23, 1, 22, 39: aloë non infestat stomachum, id. 27, 4, 5, 16: saporem, id. 15, 23, 25, 92: fons amaritudine infestatur, id. 2, 103, 106, 228: rem familiarem,