sectātor (noun M) : id.
* A follower, attendant, adherent; in the plur., a train, retinue, suite (syn. assectator).
* In gen. (rare but class.): at sectabantur multi. Quid opus est sectatoribus? (of the train accompanying a candidate) Cic. Mur. 34, 71 (shortly afterwards, assectatio and assectari); cf.: lex Fabia, quae est de numero sectatorum,id. ib. 34, 71: num Gabinii comes vel sectator? id. Rab. Post. 8, 21: puerorum rixantium,Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 2; cf.: sectator domi, comes in publico,Tac. A. 4, 68: habet (Thrasea) sectatores vel potius satellites,id. ib. 16, 22: multis sectatorum dilapsis,id. ib. 5, 10 fin.: sectator quaestoris,id. ib. 11, 21.
* In partic.
* A follower, adherent of a leader or sect (only post-Aug.): hic non tam discipulos quam sectatores aliquot habuit,Suet. Gram. 24; cf. Tac. Or. 34: cohors sectatorum Aristotelis,Gell. 13, 5, 2: eloquentiae aut philosophiae sectatores,id. 19, 5, 1; cf. id. 2, 2, 2.
* One who practises, a follower (late Lat.): bonorum operum,Vulg. Tit. 2, 14.