as-sector (ads-, Kayser, Halm, K. and H.), ātus, 1
* V. dep. a.
* To attend one with zeal, eagerness, etc., to accompany, follow, wait upon, be in attendance upon (esp. of the friends of candidates for office): cum aedilitatem P. Crassus peteret, eumque major natu, etiam consularis, Ser. Galba adsectaretur, * Cic. de Or. 1, 56, 239: studia adulescentulorum in suffragando, in adsectando mirifice et magna et honesta sunt,Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 8 fin.: cum adsectaretur: Num quid vis? occupo,Hor. S. 1, 9, 6: omnis inferioris Germaniae miles Valentem adsectabatur,Tac. H. 2, 93 fin.; id. A. 6, 19; id. Or. 2: cum celebritatem adsectarentur adulescentium scholae,Plin. 33, 12, 54, § 152; Suet. Caes. 19.
* In jurid. Lat.: feminam, to follow a woman (considered as a wrong), Dig. 47, 10, 15, § 22.!*? Pass.: adsectari se omnes cupiunt: adsectari passive, ἀκολουθεῖσθαι, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 792 P.

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