Lemma 1sequor, sequi, secuturus
verb
to follow; to escort/attend/accompany; to aim at/reach after/strive for/make for/seek; to attainMorphology
present indicative active 3rd singularsequ + itur · regular
Lewis & Short
sĕquor, sĕcūtus, 3, sync. sequentūm, ( form, ; and P.) [ sak-, to follow; sakis, friend; ; socius], to follow, to come or go after, to follow after, attend.
With ; 10, 710
(so most in Plaut.): Di. Sequere intro. Pa. Sequor; : : hos falcati currus sequebantur.
Of things.
To follow in a hostile manner; to chase, pursue; —
To follow in time or order; to succeed, come after ( in pres.): aestatem auctumnus sequitur, post acer hiems fit, Enn. P. (Ann. 406 Vahl.)
With the notion of cause implied, to follow, result, ensue: increpuit.
Of a possession or inheritance, to follow, to fall to the share of any one: si quis mortuos est Arpinatis, ejus heredem sacra non secuntur, Cato P. — Abbreviated on monuments, H. M. H. N. S.; Fabri ad h. l.
To go towards or to a place.
Pregn., to follow the hand in plucking or pulling; to come off or away, come out; to come easily, come of itself; cera mollis sequensque digitos, yielding to,
, to follow, succeed, result, ensue usu. of an immediate consequence: patrem sequuntur liberi, succeed to the rank or condition of their father: post gloriam invidiam sequi.
To follow (as a leader) an authority, a party, an example, a plan, ; to follow in the track of; to comply with, accede to, conform to: sequi naturam, optimam bene vivendi ducem; ( secta); (with obtemperare voluntati) — Of an auditor, to follow an orator or a speech: non lingua valet, non corpore notae Sufficiunt vires, nec vox aut verba sequuntur, attend or obey the will — milit. t. t.: signa sequi, to march in rank.
To follow or pursue an end or object; to strive for, aim at, seek to attain — With
In discourse, to follow in order or sequence; to come next in order, to succeed — With
In logical conclusions, to follow, ensue; with subject-clause. — With ut.
To follow or come naturally or easily; to be obtained without effort: Sorof ad loc. — Hence, sĕquens, entis, P. a., next, next following in order : proximus, posterior. — , with designations of time: sequenti die; also. 35, § 178: qui praesenti potentiā credunt exstingui posse etiam sequentis aevi memoriam. — As , used by some for, an epithet, Quintilian.