I.a throwing or placing between, interposition; a coming between, intervention (class.).
I. Lit.: “lapides temerario interjectu ponere, App. de Deo, Soc. Prol. p. 365, 15: luna interpositu interjectuque terrae repente deficit,” Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 103.—
II. Trop., an interval: “petito paucorum dierum interjectu,” Tac. A. 3, 67.—Esp. abl. sing.: interjectu, after an interval, with an interval: “temporis,” Tac. A. 3, 51 fin.: “noctis,” after a night, id. ib. 6, 39: “paucorum dierum,” id. ib. 3, 67: “parvi temporis,” Aur. Vict. Epit. 48, 15.—In plur.: “interjectibus capere fructum,” at various times, Col. 3, 21, 61.
