cōnĭcĭo (also conjĭcio and cōicio; cf. Munro ad Lucr. 2, 1061; Laber. ap. Gell. 16, 7, 5), jēci, jectum, 3, v. a. (arch. temp. perf. conjexi, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 99) [jacio].
I To throw or bring together, to unite , = cogo, colligo.
A Lit. (very rare): cum semina rerum coaluerint quae, conjecta repente, etc., Lucr. 2, 1061; cf. id. 2, 1073 sq.: palliolum in collum, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 10; id. Capt. 4, 1, 12 (cf. id. ib. 4, 2, 9: collecto pallio): sarcinas in medium, Liv. 10, 36, 1 Weissenb. (MSS. in medio); ib. § 13; 31, 27, 7: tecta, quae conjectis celeriter stramentis erant inaedificata, Auct. B. G. 8, 5. —
B Trop.
1 To throw together in speaking, to dispute, contend, discuss, manage judicially (ante-class.): verba inter sese, to bandy words , Afran. ap. Non. p. 267, 28; so without verba: noli, mea mater, me praesente cum patre, conicere, id. ib. p. 267, 30; p. 268, 3: causam conicere hodie ad te volo (conicere, agere, Non.), id. ib. p. 267, 32; cf. the law formula: ante meridiem causam coiciunto, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 13, 20; and Gell. 17, 2, 10.—
2 Like the Gr. συμβάλλειν (v. Lidd. and Scott in h. v. III. 2.), to put together logically, connect, unite; hence (causa pro effectu), to draw a conclusion from collected particulars, to conclude, infer, conjecture (not in Quint., who very freq. employed the synon. colligo): aliquid ex aliquā re, Lucr. 1, 751; 2, 121; Nep. Eum. 2, 2; id. Timo th. 4, 2: annos sexaginta natus es aut plus, ut conicio, Ter. Heaut. 63: quid illud mali est? nequeo satis mirari, neque conicere, id. Eun. 547: cito conjeci, Lanuvii te fuisse, Cic. Att. 14, 21, 1: de futuris, Nep. Them. 1, 4: quam multos esse oporteret, ex ipso navigio, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 28, § 71: conicito, possisne necne, etc., Plaut. Cas. 1, 1, 6: tu conicito cetera, Quid ego ex hac inopiā capiam, Ter. Phorm. 167.—
b In partic., t. t. of the lang. of augury, to prophesy, foretell, divine from omens, signs ( a dream, oracle , etc.); to interpret an omen, a dream, an oracle , etc.: somnium huic, Plaut. Curc. 2, 2, 3: qui de matre suaviandā ex oraculo Apollinis tam acute arguteque conjecerit, Cic. Brut. 14, 53: male conjecta maleque interpretata falsa sunt, etc., id. Div. 1, 52, 119; cf. id. ib. 2, 31, 66: num igitur quae tempestas impendeat vatis melius coniciet quam gubernator? etc., id. ib. 2, 5, 12: bene qui coniciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optumum (transl. of a Greek verse), id. ib. 2, 5, 12; cf. conjectura, II., conjector, and conjectrix.—
II To throw, cast, urge, drive, hurl, put, place , etc., a person or thing with force, quickly , etc., to or towards; and conicere se, to betake, cast , or throw one's self hastily or in flight somewhere (very freq. and class. in prose and poetry).
A Lit.
α With in : tela in nostros, Caes. B. G. 1, 26; 1, 46; Nep. Dat. 9, 5: pila in hostes, Caes. B. G. 1, 52: aliquem in carcerem, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 7, § 17; id. Tusc. 1, 40, 96; Suet. Caes. 17: in vincula, Caes. B. G. 4, 27; Sall. C. 42, 3; Nep. Milt. 7 fin. ; id. Paus. 3, 5; id. Pelop. 5, 1; Liv. 29, 9, 8, and id. 19, 2, 4 et saep.: in catenas, Caes. B. G. 1, 47 fin. ; Liv. 29, 21, 2: in compedes, Suet. Vit. 12: in custodiam, Nep. Phoc. 3, 4; Gai Inst. 1, 13; Suet. Aug. 27 al.: incolas vivos constrictosque in flammam, Auct. B. Afr. 87; cf.: te in ignem, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 64: in eculeum, Cic. Tusc. 5, 5, 13: hostem in fugam, Caes. B. G. 4, 12: exercitum in angustias, Curt. 5, 3, 21: navem in portum (vis tempestatis), Cic. Inv. 2, 32, 98: serpentes vivas in vasa fictilia, Nep. Hann. 10, 4: cultros in guttura velleris atri, to thrust into , Ov. M. 7, 245; cf.: ferrum in guttura, id. ib. 3, 90: se in signa manipulosque, Caes. B. G. 6, 40: se in paludem, Liv. 1, 12, 10: se in sacrarium, Nep. Them. 8, 4: se in ultimam provinciam Tarsum usque, Cic. Att. 5, 16, 4: se in fugam, id. Cael. 26, 63; so, se in pedes, to take to one's heels , Ter. Phorm. 191 (cf.: se conferre in pedes, Enn. ap. Non. p. 518, 20, and Plaut. Bacch. 3, 1, 7; and: quin, pedes, vos in curriculum conicitis? id. Merc. 5, 2, 91): se intro, Lucil. 28, 47; Ter. Heaut. 277.—
β With dat. (rare): alii spolia ... Coniciunt igni, Verg. A. 11, 194: huic dea unum anguem Conicit, id. ib. 7, 347: facem juveni conjecit, id. ib. 7, 456: conjectaque vincula collo accipit, thrown about the neck , Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 83.—
γ With ad : animus domicilia mutet ad alias animalium formas conjectus, removed, transposed , Sen. Ep. 88, 29.—
δ With acc. alone (mostly poet.): magnus decursus aquaï Fragmina coniciens silvarum arbustaque tota, bearing down, prostrating , Lucr. 1, 284: jaculum, Verg. A. 9, 698: tela, Ov. M. 5, 42: cultros, id. ib. 15, 735: thyrsos, id. ib. 11, 28: venabula manibus, id. ib. 12, 454: domus inflammata conjectis ignibus, Cic. Att. 4, 3, 2: telum inbelle sine ictu, Verg. A. 2, 544.—
ε With inter : jaculum inter ilia, Ov. M. 8, 412.—
B Trop., to bring, direct, turn, throw, urge, drive, force something eagerly, quickly to or towards , etc.
α With in : aliquem in morbum ex aegritudine, Plaut. Poen. prol. 69: aliquem in laetitiam, Ter. Heaut. 292: (hostes) in terrorem ac tumultum, Liv. 34, 28, 3: in metum, id. 39, 25, 11: in periculum, Suet. Oth. 10: rem publicam in perturbationes, Cic. Fam. 12, 1, 1: aliquem in nuptias, Ter. And. 602; cf. id. ib. 620; 667: (Catilinam) ex occultis insidiis in apertum latrocinium, Cic. Cat. 2, 1, 1: aliquem in tricas, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 18; Liv. 36, 12, 4: se in saginam ad regem aliquem, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 99: se mirificam in latebram, to fly to (in disputing), Cic. Div. 2, 20, 46: se in noctem, to commit one's self to the night, travel by night , id. Mil. 19, 49: se mente ac voluntate in versum, to devote or apply one's self with zeal to the art of poetry , id. de Or. 3, 50, 194: oculos in aliquem, id. Clu. 19, 54; id. Lael. 2, 9; Tac. H. 1, 17: orationem tam improbe in clarissimos viros, Cic. Sest. 18, 40: tantam pecuniam in propylaea, to throw away, squander , id. Off. 2, 17, 60; cf.: cum sestertium milies in culinam conjecisset (Apicius), Sen. Cons. Helv. 10, 9: culpam in unum vigilem, Liv. 5, 47, 10: crimina in tuam nimiam diligentiam, Cic. Mur. 35, 73: maledicta in ejus vitam, id. Planc. 12, 31: causas tenues simultatum in gregem locupletium, i. e. to cause, occasion , Auct. B. Alex. 49: crimen in quae tempora, Liv. 3, 24, 5: omen in illam provinciam, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 6, § 18.—
β Absol. : oculos, Cic. de Or. 2, 55, 225: petitiones ita conjectae (the fig. taken from aiming at a thing with weapons), id. Cat. 1, 6, 15: in disputando conjecit illam vocem Cn. Pompeius, omnes oportere senatui dicto audientes esse, threw out or let fall , etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 4, 4.—*
γ With sub : id vos sub legis superbissimae vincula conicitis, Liv. 4, 4, 10.—
2 Of a verbal bringing forward, etc., to urge, press, treat, adduce : rem ubi paciscuntur, in comitio aut in foro causam coiciunto, XII. Tab. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 13, 20: causam coicere ad te volo, Afran. ap. Non. p. 267, 32 (Com. Rel. v. 216 Rib.): verba inter se acrius, id. ib. p. 267, 27 (Com. Rel. v. 309 ib.): is cum filio Cojecerat nescio quid de ratiunculā, id. ap. Suet. Vit. Ner. 11 (Com. Rel. v. 191 ib.).—
3 To throw, place, put into, include in , etc.: eum fasciculum, quo illam (epistulam) conjeceram, Cic. Att. 2, 13, 1: ex illo libello, qui in epistulam conjectus est, id. ib. 9, 13, 7: conjeci id (prooemium) in eum librum, quem tibi misi, id. ib. 16, 6, 4: pluraque praeterea in eandem epistulam conjeci, id. ib. 7, 16, 1; cf.: quod multos dies epistulam in manibus habui... ideo multa conjecta sunt aliud alio tempore, id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 7, § 23: legem in decimam tabulam, id. Leg. 2, 25, 64; id. Caecin. 22, 63.