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jăcĭo , jēci, jactum, 3, v. a. cf. διώκω, to pursue; Germ. jagen, to make go, cause to go, send; hence,
I.to throw, cast, fling, hurl.
B. Transf.
1. To lay, set, establish, build, found, construct, erect: “urbi fundamenta,Liv. 1, 12: “vallum,id. 30, 10: “aggere jacto,Caes. B. G. 2, 12: “molem,id. B. C. 1, 25: “muros,Verg. A. 5, 631; 9, 712: “moles,Cic. Att. 9, 14, 1: “novae domus fundamenta,Suet. Calig. 22; Ov. F. 4, 835: “molem in mare,Dig. 43, 8, 2, § 8.—
2. To send forth, emit; to bring forth, produce: “de corpore odorem,Lucr. 2, 846: “igniculos,Cic. Att. 15, 26, 2: “jacturas poma myricas,that will bear, Ov. A. A. 1, 747.—
3. To throw away: “scuta jacere, fugereque hostes, more habent licentiam,Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 27: “vestem procul,Ov. M. 4, 357: “is sua jecit humi arma,id. ib. 3, 127: “pavidas pharetras,Val. Fl. 5, 427.—Esp., to throw overboard, Dig. 41, 2, 21, § 2; 14, 2, 2, § 7; to cast, shed: “cornua,Ov. A. A. 3, 78.—
4. To throw, scatter, sow: “volucres semina jacta legunt,Ov. M. 5, 485; id. H. 12, 17: “jacto semine,Verg. G. 1, 104: “seminibus jactis,id. ib. 2, 57; 6, 11; id. F. 1, 662: “flores,id. A. 5, 79: “lapides,id. E. 6, 41.—
5. To project as a shadow: “nullam umbram,Plin. 2, 73, 75, § 183 sq.
II. Trop.
B. To lay, set, establish: “causae fundamenta,Cic. Fl. 2, 4: “fundamenta pacis,id. Phil. 1, 1, 1: “gradum atque aditum ad rem,id. Agr. 2, 15: “odia in longum jacere,to strew, sow, Tac. A. 1, 69: “fundamenta reipublicae,Suet. Aug. 28.—
C. To throw out in speaking, to let fall, intimate, utter, mention, declare: “assiduas querelas, Cic. poët. Div 1, 8, 14: illud, quod jacis obscure,id. Att. 2, 7, 4: “suspicionem,id. Fl. 3, 6: “de lacu Albano,Liv. 5, 15: “vera an vana,id. 6, 14: “multo plura praesens audivit, quam in absentem jacta erant,id. 43, 8: “Jugurtha inter alias jacit oportere, etc.,Sall. J. 11: “quaedam de habitu cultuque et institutis ejus,Tac. A 1, 11: “fortuitos sermones,id. ib. 4, 68: “ali quid per vaniloquentiam ac minas, id. ib 6, 31: multasque nec dubias significationes saepe jecit,Suet. Ner. 37: “crimina non haec sunt nostro sine jacta dolore,Tib. 4, 14, 3.
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