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|lshtext=<b>jăcĭo</b>: jēci, jactum, 3, v. a. cf. [[διώκω]], to [[pursue]]; Germ. jagen, to [[make]] go, [[cause]] to go, [[send]]; [[hence]],<br /><b>I</b> to [[throw]], [[cast]], [[fling]], [[hurl]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[genu]] ad aliquem, to [[hit]] or [[push]] one [[with]] the [[knee]], Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 17: lapides, Cic. Mil. 15: [[fulmen]] in [[medium]] [[mare]], id. Div. 2, 19: in quem scyphum de manu jacere [[conatus]], id. Verr. 2, 4, 10: aridam materiam de [[muro]] in aggerem, Caes. B. G. 7, 24: se in profundum, Cic. Sest. 20: saxeam pilam [[ponto]], Verg. A. 9, 712: ensem fluctibus mediis, id. ib. 10, 683: balearica [[plumbum]] Funda jacit, Ov M. 2, 728: libellos in faciem ejus, Suet. Claud. 15 fin.—Freq. of [[dice]]-throwing: talos, Plaut. As. 4, 1, 35; 5, 2, 54; Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 54: Venerem, id. Div. 2, 59, 121; Suet. Aug. 71.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To [[lay]], [[set]], [[establish]], [[build]], [[found]], [[construct]], [[erect]]: urbi fundamenta, Liv. 1, 12: [[vallum]], id. 30, 10: aggere jacto, Caes. B. G. 2, 12: molem, id. B. C. 1, 25: muros, Verg. A. 5, 631; 9, 712: [[moles]], Cic. Att. 9, 14, 1: novae [[domus]] fundamenta, Suet. Calig. 22; Ov. F. 4, 835: molem in [[mare]], Dig. 43, 8, 2, § 8.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To [[send]] [[forth]], [[emit]]; to [[bring]] [[forth]], [[produce]]: de corpore odorem, Lucr. 2, 846: igniculos, Cic. Att. 15, 26, 2: jacturas poma myricas, [[that]] [[will]] [[bear]], Ov. A. A. 1, 747.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To [[throw]] [[away]]: [[scuta]] jacere, fugereque hostes, [[more]] habent licentiam, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 27: vestem [[procul]], Ov. M. 4, 357: is sua jecit [[humi]] [[arma]], id. ib. 3, 127: pavidas pharetras, Val. Fl. 5, 427.—Esp., to [[throw]] [[overboard]], Dig. 41, 2, 21, § 2; 14, 2, 2, § 7; to [[cast]], [[shed]]: cornua, Ov. A. A. 3, 78.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>4</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To [[throw]], [[scatter]], [[sow]]: volucres semina jacta legunt, Ov. M. 5, 485; id. H. 12, 17: jacto semine, Verg. G. 1, 104: seminibus jactis, id. ib. 2, 57; 6, 11; id. F. 1, 662: flores, id. A. 5, 79: lapides, id. E. 6, 41.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>5</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To [[project]] as a [[shadow]]: nullam umbram, Plin. 2, 73, 75, § 183 sq.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> To [[throw]], [[cast]]: contumeliam in aliquem, Cic. Sull. 7, 23: injuriam in aliquem, id. Par. 4, 1: adulteria, to [[lay]] to one's [[charge]], id. Planc. 12, 30: ridiculum, id. Or. 26, 87: id, [[quod]] proponendum fuit, permotis animis jacit ad extremum, id. Part. 13, 46: jecit [[quidam]] [[casus]] [[caput]] [[meum]], in mediam contentionem, id. Fam. 1, 9, 13: probra in feminas illustres, Tac. A. 11, 13.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> To [[lay]], [[set]], [[establish]]: causae fundamenta, Cic. Fl. 2, 4: fundamenta pacis, id. Phil. 1, 1, 1: gradum [[atque]] aditum ad rem, id. Agr. 2, 15: odia in [[longum]] jacere, to [[strew]], [[sow]], Tac. A. 1, 69: fundamenta reipublicae, Suet. Aug. 28.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> To [[throw]] [[out]] in [[speaking]], to [[let]] [[fall]], [[intimate]], [[utter]], [[mention]], [[declare]]: assiduas querelas, Cic. poët. Div 1, 8, 14: illud, [[quod]] jacis [[obscure]], id. Att. 2, 7, 4: suspicionem, id. Fl. 3, 6: de lacu Albano, Liv. 5, 15: vera an vana, id. 6, 14: [[multo]] plura [[praesens]] audivit, [[quam]] in absentem jacta erant, id. 43, 8: [[Jugurtha]] [[inter]] [[alias]] jacit oportere, etc., Sall. J. 11: quaedam de habitu cultuque et institutis ejus, Tac. A 1, 11: fortuitos sermones, id. ib. 4, 68: ali [[quid]] per vaniloquentiam ac minas, id. ib 6, 31: multasque nec dubias significationes [[saepe]] jecit, Suet. Ner. 37: crimina non haec sunt nostro [[sine]] jacta dolore, Tib. 4, 14, 3.
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