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|lshtext=<b>jactus</b>: ūs, m. jacio,<br /><b>I</b> a throwing, casting, hurling; a [[throw]], [[cast]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A throwing [[out]], spreading: jactus radiorum, Plin. 2, 45, 45, § 116.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[cast]] (of the [[net]]), a [[haul]], [[draught]]: jactum [[retis]] [[emere]], Dig. 19, 1, 11, § 18; Val. Max. 4, 1, 7 ext.—*<br /><b>II</b> Trop., a throwing [[out]], uttering: [[fortuitus]] jactus vocis, an [[assertion]] [[casually]] thrown [[out]], Val. Max. 1, 5, 9.
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