noun

jactus

gen. jactūs · gender masculine · decl. 4th

a throwing, casting, hurling; a throw, cast

a throwing, casting, hurling; a throw, cast.

In gen.: jactus fulminum, Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 18; Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 104: haec… ••

In gen.: jactus fulminum, Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 18; Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 104: haec certamina tanta Pulveris exigui jactu compressa quiescunt, Verg. G. 4, 87: glebarum et testarum, Quint. 8, 2, 5: intra jactum teli progressus, Verg. A. 11, 608: teli jactu abesse, to be a spear's-throw distant, Liv. 8, 7 init.: usque ad jactum tali, Tac. A. 13, 40; Curt. 3, 11, 1: truces in sublime jactus (of the bull), Plin. 11, 2, 1, § 4.—

a throw; cast ••

In partic., a throw or cast of dice: quid est tam incertum quam talorum jactus, Cic. Div. 2, 59, 121: in prospero tesserarum jactu, Liv. 4, 17: talorum ducere jactus, Ov. A. A. 3, 353: ita vita'st hominum quasi si ludas tesseris: si illud, quod maxime opus't jactu non cadit, etc., Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 22.—

by extension

A throwing out, spreading •

A throwing out, spreading: jactus radiorum, Plin. 2, 45, 45, § 116.—

A throwing down; out, throwing overboard absol ••

A throwing down or out, throwing overboard: jactum mercium facere levandae navis causā, a jettison, Dig. 14, 2, 1 sq.: facere jactum medio in ponto, Sen. Troad. 1037: horribilis de saxo jactu' deorsum, Lucr. 3, 1016; Verg. G. 4, 528.—Absol.: decidere jactu cum ventis, Juv. 12, 33; Paul. Sent. 2, 7.—

A cast; a haul, draught; ext •

A cast (of the net), a haul, draught: jactum retis emere, Dig. 19, 1, 11, § 18; Val. Max. 4, 1, 7 ext.—*

a throwing out, uttering figuratively •

Trop., a throwing out, uttering: fortuitus jactus vocis, an assertion casually thrown out, Val. Max. 1, 5, 9.

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