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assectātor (ads-), ōris, m. [assector], 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).
- I. 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.
- II. 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.
as-sector (ads-, Kayser, Halm, K. and H.), ātus, 1, v. dep. a.
- I. 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.
- II. In jurid. Lat.: feminam, to follow a woman (considered as a wrong), Dig. 47, 10, 15, § 22.
Note: Pass.: adsectari se omnes cupiunt: adsectari passive, ἀκολουθεῖσθαι, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 792 P.