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The corpus record — Latin

jactatio

jactatio · f

a throwing

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Where it lives

  • de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
  • De Consolatione ad Polybium 1 · 1.76/10k
  • De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
  • Tusculanae Disputationes 5 · 0.88/10k
  • De Beneficiis 2 · 0.44/10k
  • Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 5 · 0.42/10k
  • De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
  • Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
  • Institutio Oratoria 5 · 0.29/10k
  • De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k

What it meant

jactātĭo — Lewis & Short

jactātĭo, ōnis, f.jacto,

I a throwing or tossing to and fro, a shaking, agitation, violent or frequent motion.
I Lit.: corporis, motion, gestures, Cic. Or. 25, 86: ubi primum ducta cicatrix, patique posse visa jactationem, Liv. 29, 32: manus, Quint. 10, 7, 26; of a storm at sea: ex magna jactatione terram videre, Cic. Mur. 2, 4: armigeri in castra referebant (eum) jactationem vulnerum haud facile tolerantem, the jolting, Curt. 6, 5, 1.—
II Trop.
A In gen., of mental agitation: jactationes animorum incitatae, Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 15.—
B Esp.
1 A boasting, bragging; ostentation, display, vanity: jactatio est voluptas gestiens et se efferens insolentius, Cic. Tusc. 4, 9, 20: verborum, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 2: nulla cultūs, Tac. G. 6: extemporalis garrulitas circulatoriae jactationis est, Quint. 2, 4, 15: eruditionis, id. 1, 5, 11: nonnullorum hominum jactationem et insolentiam ferre non potes, Cael. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 9, A, 5.—
2 Jactatio popularis, a striving after popular applause, Cic. Clu. 35, 95; id. Har. Resp. 20, 43; so, jactatio cursusque popularis, id. Prov. Cons. 16, 38; cf.: eloquentia haec forensis ... ornata verbis atque sententiis jactationem habuit in populo, id. Or. 3, 13.

In the wild

6 of 24 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.