(verb) : jăcĭo, jēci, jactum, 3, cf. διώκω, to pursue; Germ. jagen, to make go, cause to go, send; hence
* To throw, cast, fling, hurl.
* 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,Cic. 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.
* Transf.
* Trop.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* To project as a shadow: nullam umbram,Plin. 2, 73, 75, § 183 sq.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.