(verb) : objecto, āvi, ātum, 1, id.
* To throw before or against, to set against, oppose.
* Lit. (poet.): (pelagi volucres) Nunc caput objectare fretis, nunc currere in undas,i. e. to dive down,Verg. G. 1, 386: huc illuc clipeum objectans,opposing, presenting,Stat. Th. 2, 662: ingerit objectans trepidantibus ora leonis,Sil. 2, 194.
* Trop.
* In gen.
* To abandon, expose, endanger: statuit eum objectare periculis,Sall. J. 7, 1: caput periclis,to expose,Verg. A. 2, 751: corpora bello,id. G. 4, 218: aliquem dolo simul et casibus,Tac. A. 2, 5: pro aliquo animam,Verg. A. 12, 229.
* In partic.
* To throw out, charge, object, to reproach or upbraid with, to accuse of any thing as a crime (so most freq., but whether used by Cic. is doubtful): objectare alicui inopiam,Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 28: rus mihi tu objectas?id. Most. 1, 1, 16: probrum alicui,Cic. Dom. 29; Sall. J. 85, 14; Tac. H. 2, 30: cum in colloquiis Pompeiani famem nostris objectarent, * Caes. B. C. 3, 48: vecordiam,Sall. J. 94, 4: veneficia in principem et devotiones,Tac. A. 4, 52: spoliatas et inopes legiones Trebellio,id. H. 1, 60: natum (i. e. filii mortem),Ov. M. 2, 400.—With object-clause: mihi objectent lenocinium facere,Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 76: nobilitas objectare Fabio fugisse eum Appium Claudium collegam,Liv. 10, 15, 12. —*
* To throw out, let fall, say any thing (disagreeable) to any one: cave tu illi objectes nunc in aegritudine, Te has emisse,Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 123.