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.☞ Pass. : adsectari se omnes cupiunt: adsectari passive, ἀκολουθεῖσθαι, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 792 P.