iactura

Noun

 * 1) a throwing away
 * 2) throwing overboard, jettison
 * 3) * Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, Book V, 9, 3
 * Sed medici quoque graviores morbos asperis remediis curant, et gubernator, ubi nafraugium timet, iactura quidquid servari potest redimit.
 * Translation by John Carew Rolfe:
 * But physicians also cure more desperate maladies by harsh remedies, and a pilot, when he fears shipwreck, rescues by jettison whatever can be saved.
 * 1)  sacrifice
 * 2)  loss