The corpus record — Latin

secutor

secutor · m

one that follows another

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Where it lives

Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k

What it meant

sĕcūtor — Lewis & Short

sĕcūtor (sĕquūtor), ōris, m.id.,

I one that follows another, a follower.

I In gen., an attendant (post-class.): acerrimum relinquens uxori secutorem, App. M. 9, p. 224, 41; 4, p. 148, 17: TRIBVNI, Inscr. Orell. 3516 and 3517.—As an appellation of Mars (with Comes), App. M. 7, p. 192, 30. —

II In partic., a pursuer, a kind of light-armed gladiator who fought with the retiarii (pursuing them), Juv. 8, 210 (et Schol. ad loc.); Inscr. Orell. 2571; 2572; 2583; Suet. Calig. 30; cf. Isid. Orig. 18, 55; and Friedlaender in Neues Rhein. Mus. 10, p. 585.

Where it came from

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