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• pursuing ; pursuit (subs.):

I. Giving chase to an enemy: usu. expr. by verb: night prevented the p. from being carried further, *nox longius hostes prosequi prohibuit: in the ardour of the p. he was carried too far, *dum hostes prosequitur, longius elatus est: they pressed the p. so closely that ..., adeo effusis institerunt ut ..., Liv. 26, 44 Joab sounded the recal from the p. of the fugitive foe, cecinit autem Joab buccinam et retinuit populum ne persequeretur fugientem Israel, Vulg. 2 Reg. xviii. 6: they were too weary to continue the p., prae lassitudine fugientes persequi non potuerunt. id. Judic. viii. 4. Esp. expr. by gerund: they did not cease the p. till ..., neque finem prius sequendi fecerunt, quam, Caes. B. G. 7, 47: to deter the enemy from pursuing (or the p.), ab persequendo hostes deterrere, Sall. J. 50. to the p. of (= to pursue after), ad persequendum aliquem, Vulg. 2 Reg. xx. 7. The verbal subss. from sequor, insequor, etc., are rare: e. g., (1). sĕcūtio: Aug. Mor. Eccl. 1, 11 (= striving after). (2). persĕcūtio (late in this sense): p. bestiae, Ulp. Dig. 41, 1, 44: Apul. M. 4, p. 155. (3). insectātio, f. (best) (active pursuit and assault upon): ins. hostis, Liv. 21, 47: (with words), Brut. in Cic. Fam. 11, 1. (4). late and rare, insĕcūtio: Apul. M. 8, p. 208.
II. Striving after:

1. consectātio (a strong term): good but rare: the p. of elegance (in language), cons. concinnitatis, Cic. Or. 49, 165 (dub.).
2. stŭdium (eager desire and aiming at): p. of praise, s. laudis, Cic. Arch. 11, 26 cf. infr. (III.).
3. oftener expr. by verb, esp. ger. part.: concerning the p. of honours, *de honoribus consectandis: v. to pursue (VI.).

III. Objectively; the employment pursued; an occupation: stŭdium cf. Hor. S. 2, 1, 27, quot capitum vivunt, totidem studiorum millia (as many different p.s as there are people): with gen., p.s belonging to, suited for, sunt pueritiae certa studia; sunt et ineuntis adolescentiae; sunt extrema quaedam studia senectutis, Cic. Sen. 20, 76. Join: inceptum et studium, purpose and pursuit (a quo incepto studioque me ambitio mala detinuerat, Sall. C. 4).

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