Quintilianus Institutio Oratoria 11.2.41.9: "in summam ad infinitum usque perueniat" (it may come into perfection, all the way to infinity) I think this literally means infinity.Ibid 36.121.12: "quae nunc Romae ad infinitum auxere numerum." (Who now increased the prestige of Rome to infinity) hyperbolically means infinity - to impossible heights.Ibid 34.35.4: "sed haec ad infinitum' effloruit" (but this flowers to infinity) Probably temporal meaning.Ibid 34.5.5: "cum ad infinitum operum pretia creverint" (When they recognised the value of endless work) Adjective modifying operum, so not a case of ad infinitum operating as an adverb.Ibid 31.95.7: "transiit deinde in luxuriam, creveruntque genera ad infinitum," (Then he went over into luxury, and the families contested endlessly) temporal makes most sense here.Ibid 31.32.2: "ideo et nives praeferunt nivibusque etiam glaciem, velut ad infinitum coacta subtilitate" (Thus also, snows come first and also ice ? snows, as if simplicity was forced to infinity) Shading into "forever" here).Ibid 26.16.6: "tum primum pensili balinearum usu ad infinitum blandiente." (then the first of baths by using massage to infinity) Not quite sure what this one says.Ibid 20.227.5: "ut semen unicaulis adspersum curationi feminarum aviditates augere infinitum" (so that the seed of the single-stalked sprinkled as medicine increases the eagerness of women to infinity) Again, means "a lot"/"extremely" rather than "endlessly or "forever".Ibid., 17.44.2: "si inter fontes reperta est, ad infinitum fertilis, verum aspera tractatu si nimia iniecta est, exurit solum." (if it is found among springs, fertile to infinity, even with rough handling if too much is applied, it burns up only ?" Could be temporal, but I suspect it is the same sense of "extremely" as above).Basically means very - not the same as the English sense Pliny Naturalis Historia, 13.62.7: "in eo nucleus dulcis, dum recens est siccatus durescit ad infinitum, ut mandi non possit" (in it the kernal is sweet, while it is fresh having dried it hardens to infinity, so that it cannot be chewed).De Natura Deorum, 1.2.14: ".et ad infinitum tempus regantur atque moveantur" (shall be ruled and moved til infinite time) An adjective, hanging off "tempus" (time), but with the English sense I put a search into Diogenes (which contains all the Latin up to the sixth century) and it gave me the following:
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