I.v. freq. [persequor], to follow or pursue eagerly, to investigate (ante-class.): “persectari hoc volo, Sceledre, nos nostri an alieni simus,” Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 20; Lucr. 4, 1010: “nec persectari primordia singula quaeque,” id. 2, 165.
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