The corpus record — Latin

sectator

sectator · m

a follower

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Where it lives

De Cultu Feminarum 2 · 3.9/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 2 · 3.43/10k
Pro L. Murena 3 · 2.84/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 1 · 2.46/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
Noctes Atticae 18 · 1.61/10k
Apologia 3 · 1.4/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

sectātor — Lewis & Short

sectātor, ōris, m.id.,

I a follower, attendant, adherent; in the plur., a train, retinue, suite (syn. assectator).

I In gen. (rare but class.): at sectabantur multi. Quid opus est sectatoribus? (of the train accompanying a candidate) Cic. Mur. 34, 71 (shortly afterwards, assectatio and assectari); cf.: lex Fabia, quae est de numero sectatorum, id. ib. 34, 71: num Gabinii comes vel sectator? id. Rab. Post. 8, 21: puerorum rixantium, Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 2; cf.: sectator domi, comes in publico, Tac. A. 4, 68: habet (Thrasea) sectatores vel potius satellites, id. ib. 16, 22: multis sectatorum dilapsis, id. ib. 5, 10 fin.: sectator quaestoris, id. ib. 11, 21.—

II In partic.

1 A follower, adherent of a leader or sect (only post-Aug.): hic non tam discipulos quam sectatores aliquot habuit, Suet. Gram. 24; cf. Tac. Or. 34: cohors sectatorum Aristotelis, Gell. 13, 5, 2: eloquentiae aut philosophiae sectatores, id. 19, 5, 1; cf. id. 2, 2, 2. —

2 One who practises, a follower (late Lat.): bonorum operum, Vulg. Tit. 2, 14.

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