con-sector, ātus, 1
* V. dep., to follow, pursue, strive after eagerly, both in a good and bad sense.
* Lit., to attend eagerly or continually; to go after a person or thing, etc.
* Prop. (rare): hos consector, his ultro arrideo,Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 18: mares, feminas,Plaut. Mil. 4, 3, 20; cf.: senectam ovium (opp. agnas fastidire),Plin. 8, 47, 72, § 188: angiporta haec,Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 137; cf. rivulos,Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 117.— More freq. (esp. in Cic.)
* To follow in a hostile manner, to persecule, chase, pursue (most freq. in the histt.): quosdam (latrones) consectatus est et confecit,Cic. Inv. 2, 37, 111: redeuntes equites quos possunt consectantur atque occidunt,Caes. B. G. 5, 58; 3, 26; 4, 14; Nep. Them. 2, 3; Liv. 43, 10, 7; Vell. 2, 19, 2; Tac. Agr. 16; id. A. 4, 24; id. H. 1, 68.— Of the chase, * Lucr. 5, 965; cf. Liv. 21, 43, 8; 41, 9, 6: Fuflum clamoribus et convitiis et sibilis,Cic. Att. 2, 18, 1; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 2: victos implacabili odio,Tac. H. 4, 1.
* Trop., of things omnia me mala consectantur, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 7.!*? In pass. signif.: uxorem tuam a populo lapidibus consectari video (διώκεσθαι), to be persecuted, Laber. ap. Prisc. p. 793 P.

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