I.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.!*? Pass.: adsectari se omnes cupiunt: adsectari passive, ἀκολουθεῖσθαι, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 792 P.
