follow Copy link Outline 1. sĕquor, sĕcūtus, 3 (trans. and intr.)2. consĕquor, 3 (often = to attain by following3. insĕquor, 3 (to f. close upon, in the rear of)4. subsĕquor, 3 • follow: 1. sĕquor, sĕcūtus, 3 (trans. and intr.): go you before; I f., i prae; sequor, Ter.: to f. a magistrate into his province, s. magistratum in provinciam, Nep. Att. 6 (v. to attend): he f.s his father with unequal steps, s. patrem non passibus aequis, Virg. Aen. 2, 724. Often of order in time or result: what f.s (= our et cetera), Cic. Or. 49, 164: a difference, of opinion f.s from this, discrimen opinionis s. ex hac re, Liv. 5, 6, med.: v. to result. Fig.: to f. a road, viam, iter s., Ov.: Cic.: to f. Nature as a guide, Naturam ducem s., Cic. Am. 5, 19: to f. advice, consilium s., Cic. Often used impers. (foll. by inf. or ut and subj.), to denote a logical or other consequence: if this proposition is not true, it f.s that it is false, si haec enuntiatio vera non est, sequitur ut falsa sit, Cic. Fat. 12, 28: nor does it f. that there are ..., nec s. esse ..., Cic. l. c.: it f.s that I should show, s. ut doceam, Cic. N. D. 2, 32, init. Frequent., sector, 1 (to be in the habit of f.ing; to keep f.ing): Cic.: v. to attend upon. (N.B.--When the Eng. verb is pass., the sentence may be inverted: they are usually f.'d by a great multitude, magna multitudo eos s. insuevit, Caes.) 2. consĕquor, 3 (often = to attain by following: q. v.): he f.'d me (close) to the door, consecutus est me usque ad fores, Pl. Cist. 1, 1, 92: when Crassus had thus spoken, silence (at once) f.'d, haec quum Crassus dixisset, silentium est consecutum, Cic. de Or. 1, 35, init.: blushing f.s (attends) shame, pudorem rubor c., Cic.: to f. a custom, morem c., Cic. Frequent., consector, 1 (to f. up closely, pursue): Cic. 3. insĕquor, 3 (to f. close upon, in the rear of): next to him f.s Salius, proximus huic ins. Salius, Virg. Aen. 5, 321: unless a vowel f., nisi vocalis ins., Cic. Or. 48, 161. Fig.: she f.s with her eye the fleeing bark, insequitur fugientem lumine pinum, Ov. 4. subsĕquor, 3: v. to follow up. Phr.: to f. any one in an office, succedere alicui (v. to succeed): they spoke as f.s, in hunc modum locuti (sunt), Caes. B. G. 2, 31 (v. effect, III.): thus it f.s that, ita fit ut ..., Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 10; ex quo efficitur, foll. by ut and subj., or acc. and inf., Cic. N. D. 3, 12, 30: Rep. 3, 11: sometimes it does not f., may be expr. by non ... idcirco, non continuo, non propterea: it does not f. that because you defended Opimius, you will be looked upon as a good citizen, non, si Opimium defendisti, idcirco te bonum civem putabunt, Cic. de Or. 2, 40, 70: comp. Cic. R. Am. 33, 94, non continuo, si me in gregem sicariorum contuli, sicarius sum: to f. any one's advice, instructions, alicujus consiliis, praeceptis uti, Ov.: to f. any one's own judgment or discretion, suo judicio uti, Cic. N. D. 1, 1, 1: I wish I had f.'d your most friendly advice, vellem a principio te audisse amicissime monentem, Cic.: to f. the calling of a merchant, banker, soothsayer, mercaturam, argentariam, haruspicinam facere, Cic.: (v. to carry on).