I. A throwing together.
A. A crowding, connecting, or uniting together: “materiaï,” Lucr. 5, 417: “altior animaï,” id. 4, 960.—
B. Concr., a conflux, concourse, confluence; a heap, crowd, pile: “elementorum confluit,” Lucr. 5, 600: “herbae conjectu siccari amnes,” Plin. 26, 4, 9, § 18.—
II. A throwing, throwing down, casting, projecting, hurling: “lapidum conjectu fracta domus,” Cic. Att. 4, 3, 2: “terrae,” Liv. 7, 6, 2: “telorum,” Nep. Pelop. 5, 4: “venire ad teli conjectum,” to come within weapons' throw, Liv. 2, 31, 6; 28, 14, 19; cf. “the opp.: extra teli conjectum consistere,” Petr. 90, 2: “(jaculorum) ex altioribus locis in cavam vallem,” Liv. 25, 16, 22: “quasi quid pugno bracchique superne Conjectu trudatur,” the thrust, Lucr. 6, 435.—
B. Trop.
1. Of the eyes, a turning, directing, throwing, etc.: “oculorum in me,” Cic. Sest. 54, 115; so, “oculorum,” id. de Or. 3, 59, 222; id. Planc. 8, 21; Quint. 9, 3, 101; Curt. 9, 7, 25: “non modo telorum sed oculorum,” Plin. Pan. 17, 3.—
2. Of the mind, etc., a turning, directing: “conjectus animorum in me,” Cic. Sest. 54, 115: “minarum,” Plin. Pan. 17, 3: “conjectura dicta est a conjectu, id est directione quādam rationis ad veritatem,” Quint. 3, 6, 30.—
3. = conjectura; progredi conjectu longius, Auct. Vict. Caes. 26, 4.
