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Lewis Short

assectātor | ads- (noun M) : (), , id.
* He that is in attendance upon any one (as friend, servant, client, etc.), a follower, an attendant (in a good sense, while assecla is used in a contemptuous sense).
* Lit.: vetus adsectator ex numero amicorum,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 11: cum comitatu adsectatoribusque,id. Balb. 27 fin.: hujus autem rei (sc. adsectationis) tres partes sunt: una salutatorum, cum domum veniunt; altera deductorum, tertia adsectatorum,who are always in attendance upon the candidates,Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 9 al.: cancer dapis adsectator,Plin. 9, 42, 66, § 142.
* Trop., a disciple: sapientiae, i. e. philosophus,Plin. 8, 17, 21, § 59: eloquentiae,id. 29, 1, 5, § 8: dicendi,id. 20, 14, 57, § 160: auditor adsectatorque Protagorae,Gell. 5, 10, 7.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

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