The corpus record — Latin

jaculator

jaculator · m

a thrower, caster, hurler

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 42 2 · 1.19/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 1 · 0.68/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 1 · 0.64/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 28 1 · 0.6/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Ab urbe condita 5 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

jăcŭlātor — Lewis & Short

jăcŭlātor, ōris, m.id.,

I a thrower, caster, hurler.

I In gen.: Enceladus jaculator audax (truncorum), Hor. C. 3, 4, 55: fulminis, Stat. Th. 12, 562; Arn. 4, 22: missis a rege Boccho jaculatoribus, Sen. Brev. Vit. 13, 6.—

II In partic.

A A thrower of the dart or javelin (a sort of light-armed soldier, who carried only a dart or javelin): jaculatorum manus, Liv. 36, 18; 21, 21 al. —

B A caster of the net, a fisherman, Plaut. ap. Isid. Orig. 19, 5, 2.—

III Trop., an accuser: felix orator quoque maximus et jaculator, Juv. 7, 193.

In the wild

iaculatoribusque Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 28 p11
iaculator Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.23.26.11
iaculator Statius, Thebais 12.562
iaculator Juvenal, Saturae 3.7.193
iaculatoremque Silius Italicus, Punica 4.221
iaculatoribusque Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.21.46.3

6 of 15 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.