Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Jactus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

JACTUS. A throw of the dice. Each throw was distinguished by a particular name, according to the amount or nature of the numbers turned up; as, Canis or Canicula, Venus, Vulturius, Seniones. Liv. iv. 17. Ov. A. Am. iii. 353.

2. A cast of the net; i. e. the quantity of fish taken in it. Val. Max. iv. 1. 7. extr.