Consector, consectâris, consectári, Frequencatiuum Plaut.To follow: to pursue viligently: to hunt after: to labour: to attaine or get: to endeuour to haue: to imitate or endeuour to doe like.Omnia me mala consectantur.Plaut.All euils follow me.Conuitijs consectari aliquem. Ci. To raile at with reprothfull and spitefull wordes.Debita consectari.Cic.To goe about to get his debts.Hostes consectari & conficere.Cic.To pursue and slea.Opes consectari.Cic.To hunt after riches: to studie to get riches.Riuulos consectari.Cic.To search and follow.Consectari syluestria secla ferarum. Lucret. To hunt wilde beastes. Consectari alicuius beneuolentiam largitione Ci.To indeuont to get ones good will with gifres and brides. Consectari etiam minutissima.Plin. iun.To endeuour to know euen the smallest things.Consectari singula & colligere.Plin. iun.Ac ne plura, quæ sunt penè innumerabilia consecter, compiehendam breui.Cic.Not to recite moe which be innumerable, I will, &c. Consectari aliquid.Plin. iun.To imitate or follow.Imitando consectari aliquid.Cic.By unttating to endeuour to doelike.Vbeitaiem orationis consectari. Ci. To imitate the copy of.Tam verè verba consectari, qum rem.Cic.Vitium aliquod de industa consectari. Cic.Vmbras falsæ gloriæ consectari.Cic. Consectari aliquem.Terent.To haunt much to one.
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con-sector, ātus, 1, v. dep., to follow, pursue, strive after eagerly, both in a good and bad sense. I.Lit., to attend eagerly or continually; to go after a person or thing, etc. A. 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.), B.Trop., to pursue eagerly, to strive after, endeavor to gain; to emulate an example, to imitate, etc.: qui non debita consectari soleant, quod debeatur remissuros, Cic. Att. 13, 23, 3: neque quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum, quia dolor sit, amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, id. Fin. 1, 10, 32: omnes umbras etiam falsae gloriae (corresp. with aucupari inanem rumorem), id. Pis. 24, 57: opes aut potentiam, id. Off. 1, 25, 86: benevolentiam Macedonum largitione, id. ib. 2, 15, 53; id. Leg. 1, 2, 7: verba, id. Caecin. 19, 54: ubertatem orationis, id. Fin. 3, 5, 19: plura (in discourse, opp. comprehendere brevi), id. de Or. 1, 8, 34; Plin. Pan. 75; id. Ep. 5, 6, 43: ista subtilius (in investigating), Plin. 2, 52, 53, 139: insignia ac paene vitiosa imitando,
to imitate
, Cic. de Or. 2, 22, 90: vitium de industriā, id. ib. 3, 11, 41: versus Homeri (Maro), Gell. 12, 1, 20.—II.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.—B.Trop., of things omnia me mala consectantur, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 7.!*? In pass. signif.: uxorem tuam a populo lapidibus consectari video (diw/kesqai), to be persecuted, Laber. ap. Prisc. p. 793 P.