jaculor — Logoi (Latin)

Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Ibis 2 · 5.09/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
De Spectaculis 2 · 3.14/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 2 · 1.78/10k

Densest 12 of 52 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

jăcŭlor — Lewis & Short

jăcŭlor, ātus (

I inf. jacularier, Arn. 6, 16), 1, v. dep. jaculum, to throw, cast, hurl.

I Lit.

A In gen.: qui jaculum emittit jaculari dicitur, Quint. 8, 2, 5: in jaculando brachia reducimus, etc., id. 10, 3, 6: duros jaculatur Juppiter imbres, Col. poët. 10, 329: se in hostium tela, Flor. 1, 14, 4: in quas partes se jaculetur cometes, Plin. 2, 25, 23, § 92: puppibus ignes, Verg. A. 2, 276: rapidum e nubibus ignem, id. ib. 1, 42.—

B In partic.

1 To throw the javelin, fight with the javelin: laudem consequi, equitando, jaculando, Cic. Off. 2, 13, 45: totum diem jaculans, id. Div. 2, 59, 121: cum in latus dextrum, quod patebat, Numidae jacularentur, Liv. 22, 50; Dig. 9, 2, 9, § 4.—

2 To throw out, emit, spread: oculi lupo splendent, lucemque jaculantur, Plin. 11, 37, 55, § 151: umbram, id. 36, 10, 15, § 72.—

3 To throw or hurl at, to strike, hit: cervos jaculari, Hor. C. 3, 12, 11: dextera sacras jaculatus arces, id. ib. 1, 2, 3: aliquem ferro acuto, Ov. Ib. 49: aëra disco, id. ib. 589: Juppiter igne suo lucos jaculatur et arces, id. Am. 3, 3, 35.—

II Trop., to shoot at, assail, revile: verbum, Lucr. 4, 1129: sententias vibrantes digitis, Quint. 11, 3, 120: dicta in calvos, Petr. S. 109, 8: probris procacibus jaculari, in aliquem, Liv. 42, 54, 1: in uxorem obliquis sententiis, Quint. 9, 2, 79.—

B To aim at, strive for: quid brevi fortes jaculamur aevo Multa? Hor. C. 2, 16, 17.—

C (Eccl. Lat.) To utter rapidly, to ejaculate, Aug. Ep. 121 (130), 10, 20.

In the wild

iaculando Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.27
iaculantem Ovid, Amores 3.12.27
iaculatus Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.139
iaculante Silius Italicus, Punica 14.479
iaculati Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.42.54.1
iaculetur Seneca, Hercules 1

6 of 103 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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