throwing overboard; loss, sacrifice
Latin word, found 88 times in the texts on Socratos.
Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.26.2: Id silentio noctis conati non magna iactura suorum sese effecturos sperabant, propterea quod neque longe ab oppido castra Vercingetorigis aberant, et palus, quae perpetua intercedebat, Romanos ad insequendum tardabat.
Ovid, Amores 2.14.32: Iactura socii sanguinis ulta virum.
All forms of iactura