I.to throw, cast, fling, hurl.
I. Lit.: genu ad aliquem, to hit or push one with the knee, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 17: “lapides,” Cic. Mil. 15: “fulmen in medium mare,” id. Div. 2, 19: “in quem scyphum de manu jacere conatus,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 10: “aridam materiam de muro in aggerem,” Caes. B. G. 7, 24: “se in profundum,” Cic. Sest. 20: “saxeam pilam ponto,” Verg. A. 9, 712: “ensem fluctibus mediis,” id. ib. 10, 683: “balearica plumbum Funda jacit, Ov M. 2, 728: libellos in faciem ejus,” Suet. Claud. 15 fin.—Freq. of dice-throwing: “talos,” Plaut. As. 4, 1, 35; 5, 2, 54; Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 54: “Venerem,” id. Div. 2, 59, 121; Suet. Aug. 71.—
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.
A. To throw, cast: “contumeliam in aliquem,” Cic. Sull. 7, 23: “injuriam in aliquem,” id. Par. 4, 1: “adulteria,” to lay to one's charge, id. Planc. 12, 30: “ridiculum,” id. Or. 26, 87: “id, quod proponendum fuit, permotis animis jacit ad extremum,” id. Part. 13, 46: “jecit quidam casus caput meum, in mediam contentionem,” id. Fam. 1, 9, 13: “probra in feminas illustres,” Tac. A. 11, 13.—
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.
