(verb) : jacto, āvi, ātum (jactarier, Lucr. 6, 556; Enn. Tr. 130), 1, jacio
* To throw, cast, hurl.
* Lit.: semen,to scatter,Varr. R. R. 1, 42: semina per undas,Ov. M. 4, 748: jactato flore tegente vias,id. Tr. 4, 2, 50: irrita sacrilega jactas incendia dextra,id. M. 14, 539: hastas,Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 316: vestem argentumque de muro,Caes. B. G. 7, 47: lapides vacuum in orbem,Verg. G. 1, 62: cinerem per agros,id. ib. 1, 81: se muris in praeceps,Curt. 5, 6, 7; of casting a net: rete,Dig. 19, 1, 12; also of dicethrowing: talos arripio, jacto basilicum,Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 79; cf.: numerosque manu jactabat eburnos,Ov. A. A. 2, 203; id. ib. 3, 355; Suet. Aug. 71.
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* To drive hither and thither, to drive about: cum adversā tempestate in alto jactarentur,Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 95; Ov. H. 17, 235; Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 15; Ov. Tr. 3, 2, 15: ut Aeneas pelago ... omnia circum Litora jactetur,Verg. A. 1, 668; 10, 48; 1, 182: jactati aequore toto Troes,id. ib. 1, 29; Ov. M. 11, 441 al.: si quando, ut fit, jactor in turba, etc.,Cic. Planc. 7, 17: jactatur domi suae homo honestissimus,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 67: aestu febrique jactari,id. Cat. 1, 13.—So of the sea: ut jactetur aqua,Lucr. 6, 553: cito mutata est jactati forma profundi,Ov. H. 19, 77: aequora,id. Tr. 4, 4, 57.
* To boast of, vaunt a thing: ostentare honorem aetatis, jactare urbanam gratiam et dignitatem,Caes. B. C. 3, 83: ingenium,Quint. 3, 1, 3: genus et nomen,Hor. C. 1, 14, 13: regna et virtutem,Ov. H. 16, 81: quo te jactas creatum,id. M. 9, 23; Curt. 8, 1, 23.
* With se, to talk boastfully of one's self, to boast, make an ostentatious display.
* To torment, disquiet, disturb: jactor, crucior, agitor, stimulor,Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 4: nolo te jactari diutius,id. Trin. 3, 2, 59: ipsa velut navis jactor,Ov. H. 21, 41: jactari morbis,Lucr. 3, 507: clamore et convicio,Cic. Fam. 1, 5: aliquem,id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 45.
* To carry one's self confidently or conceitedly: qui antea solitus esset jactare se magnificentissime in illo loco,Cic. Att. 2, 21, 3.
* To be officious or active in, to give one's self up to, devote one's self to a thing: jactare se in causis centumviralibus,Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 173: nostrum hoc tempus aetatis forensi labore jactari,id. Q. Fr. 3, 5: in qua (re publica) tu non valde te jactas,id. Fam. 2, 15, 3: se actionibus tribuniciis,Liv. 3, 1.
* Se in pecuniis, to be prodigal of one's money, Cic. Cat. 2, 9.—Hence, jactans, antis, P. a., boasting, bragging, boastful, vainglorious.
* To throw or fling out threats, etc.: jactare et opponere terrorem,Cic. Sest. 23, 52: minas,id. Quint. 14, 47: probra in quempiam,Liv. 29, 9; cf.: convicia,Prop. 3, 8, 11.
* Absol.: intolerantius se jactare,Cic. de Or. 2, 52, § 209: non jactandi mei causā,Quint. Decl. 268.
* With dat.: se alicui,to boast of one's self to a person,Ov. H. 12, 175: se Iliae querenti ultorem,Hor. C. 1, 2, 18; Liv. 35, 49, 3: ipse cum se jactaret amicae,Juv. 1, 62.
* With in or simple abl.: cum in eo se in contione jactavisset,Cic. Att. 2, 1, 5: ne quis sit lucus, quo se plus jactet Apollo,Verg. E. 6, 73.
* With de: jactat se jamdudum de Calidio,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 21, § 46.— (ε) With gen.: se justitiae,Hier. Ep. 23, 34. —(ζ) With two acc.: se jactare formosum,Phaedr. 3, 8, 6.
* Lit.: insolens, arrogans, jactans, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 322, 13: epistolae jactantes et gloriosae,Plin. Ep. 3, 9: neque vereor ne jactantior videar, etc.,id. ib. 9, 23; so Verg. A. 6, 815: jactantior hic paulo est, Hor. S. 1, 3, 50.—With gen.: tumidus ae sui jactans,Quint. 11, 1, 50: plebis jactantissimus amator,Spart. Hadr. 17.
* Transf., proud, noble, splendid: septemgemino jactantior aethera pulset Roma jugo,Stat. S. 4, 1, 6; Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 1.—Adv.: jactanter, boastfully, ostentatiously: minae jactanter sonantes,Amm. 27, 2, 3; Prud. Ham. 170.—Comp.: jactantius maerere,Tac. A. 2, 77: litteras componere,id. H. 3, 53; Prud. Ham. 170.