jăcĭo — Lewis & Short
jăcĭo, jēci, jactum, 3, v. a.cf. diw/kw, to pursue; Germ. jagen, to make go, cause to go, send; hence,
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.