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|lnetxt=persequor persequi, persecutus sum V DEP :: [[follow up]], [[pursue]]; [[overtake]]; [[attack]]; [[take vengeance on]]; [[accomplish]]
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{{Lewis
|lshtext=<b>per-sĕquor</b>: cūtus and quūtus, 3,<br /><b>I</b> v. dep. a. and n. ([[act]]. collat. form of the imperat. persece for perseque, Poët. ap. Cic. Att. 13, 23 fin.).<br /><b>I</b> Act., to [[follow]] [[perseveringly]], to [[follow]] [[after]], [[continue]] to [[follow]], [[pursue]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In gen.: [[ille]] servolum Jubet illum persequi, Plaut. Cist. 1, 3, 35; 4, 2, 30: si vis persequi vestigiis, id. Men. 4, 1, 9: certum est persequi, Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 18: me in Asiam [[persequens]], id. And. 5, 4, 32: ([[persequens]] dicit perseverationem sequentis ostendens. Persequitur [[enim]] qui non desinit sequi, [[Don]]. ad h. l.): aliquem, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 35, § 91: exercitum, id. Phil. 3, 3, 7: [[cursim]], Petr. 6: Hortensium ipsius vestigiis, Cic. Brut. 90, 307: quā, aut terrā aut mari, persequar eum, qui, etc., id. Att. 7, 22, 2: vestigia alicujus, id. de Or. 1, 23, 105; Verg. A. 9, 218: hanc persecuta [[mater]] orare incipit, Phaedr. 1, 28, 5.—With inf. ([[poet]].): [[atqui]] non ego te [[tigris]] ut aspera ... frangere [[persequor]], Hor. C. 1, 23, 10.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> To [[follow]] [[after]], [[press]] [[upon]], [[chase]], [[pursue]]: fugientes [[usque]] ad [[flumen]] persequuntur, Caes. B. G. 7, 67: [[bello]], id. ib. 1, 14: deterrere hostes a persequendo, Sall. J. 50, 6: feras, Ov. H. 9, 34: beluas, Curt. 8, 14, 26.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> To go [[through]] a [[place]] in [[pursuit]] of [[any]] [[thing]], to [[search]] [[through]]: omnes solitudines, Cic. Pis. 22, 53. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., to [[follow]] up, [[come]] up [[with]], [[overtake]]: quo ego te ne persequi [[quidem]] possem [[triginta]] diebus, Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 3; id. Div. 2, 72, 149: [[mors]] et fugacem persequitur virum, Hor. C. 3, 2, 14.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In gen., to [[follow]] [[perseveringly]], to [[pursue]] [[any]] [[thing]]: omnes vias persequar, Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 6: viam, Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 4: eas artes, Cic. Fin. 1, 21, 72.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> With the [[accessory]] [[notion]] of [[striving]] [[after]], to [[pursue]], [[hunt]] [[after]], [[seek]] to [[obtain]], [[strive]] [[after]], = appetere, affectare: [[quis]] est, qui utilia non studiosissime persequatur? Cic. Off. 3, 28, 101: ego mihi alios deos penates persequar, Plaut. Merc. 5, 1, 7: Pl. Tene priusquam [[hinc]] [[abeo]] savium. Ph. Si [[quidem]] mi [[hercle]] [[regnum]] detur, [[numquam]] id [[potius]] persequar, id. Curc. 1, 3, 55: hereditates, Ter. And. 4, 5, 20: hereditates aut syngraphas, Cic. Leg. 3, 8, 18: cujusquemodi voluptates, id. Fin. 2, 7, 22: ego [[meum]] jus persequar, I [[will]] [[pursue]] or [[assert]] my [[right]], Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 9; Cic. Caecin. 3, 8: persequendi juris sui [[potestas]], id. Div. in Caecil. 6, 21: bona tua repetere ac persequi lite [[atque]] judicio, id. Verr. 2, 3, 13, § 32: possumus rem nostram persequi, id. Quint. 13, 45 fin.: cum [[tribunus]] [[plebis]] poenas a seditioso cive per bonos viros judicio persequi vellet, sought to [[obtain]], id. Fam. 1, 9, 15.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With inf., to [[hasten]], be [[eager]] ([[rare]]): nec scimus [[quam]] in partem ingredi persequamur, Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 4.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> To [[follow]], be a [[follower]] of; to [[imitate]], [[copy]] [[after]] a [[person]] or [[thing]] as a [[guide]] or [[pattern]]: si [[vero]] Academiam veterem persequamur, Cic. Ac. 1, 2, 7: sectam et instituta alicujus, id. Verr. 2, 5, 71, § 183: ego neglectā barbarorum inscitiā te persequar, id. Fam. 9, 3, 2; id. Ac. 2, 23, 74: ut, quae [[maxime]] excellant in eo, quem imitabitur, ea diligentissime persequatur, id. de Or. 2, 22, 90.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>c</b> To [[pursue]], [[proceed]] [[against]], [[prosecute]]; to [[revenge]], [[avenge]], [[take]] [[vengeance]] [[upon]] a [[person]] or [[thing]]: aliquem [[bello]], Caes. B. G. 5, 1: aliquem judicio, Cic. Fl. 20, 47: alicujus injurias ulcisci ac persequi, id. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 9; so, injuriam, id. Mur. 21, 44; Sall. J. 14, 23; cf. Kritz ad Sall. C. 9, 5: mortem alicujus, Cic. Fam. 9, 3, 2: de persequendis inimicitiis, Caes. B. C. 3, 83 fin.: Trebonii mortem, Cic. Phil. 13, 18, 39; Caes. B. G. 7, 38; Liv. 40, 11 fin.: [[adulterium]], Sen. Contr. 3, 20.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>d</b> To [[persecute]] for [[religious]] [[belief]] or [[practice]] (eccl. Lat.), Tert. ad Scap. 5; Vulg. Johan. 15, 20; id. Act. 7, 52; id. Rom. 12, 14 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>e</b> To [[follow]] in [[writing]], to [[take]] [[down]], [[minute]] [[down]]: celeritate scribendi, quae dicerentur persequi, Cic. Sull. 14, 42: [[multa]] [[diserte]] dixit, quae [[notarius]] persequi non potuit, Sen. Apoc. 9, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>f</b> To [[follow]] up [[with]] [[action]], to [[follow]] [[out]], [[perform]], [[execute]], [[bring]] [[about]], do, [[accomplish]], etc.: hoc, ut [[dico]], factis persequar, Plaut. Merc. 3, 2, 11: [[erus]] [[quod]] imperavit persequi, id. Am. 2, 1, 40: [[imperium]] patris, id. Stich. 1, 2, 84 sq.: ex usu [[quod]] est, id persequar, Ter. Hec. 4, 3, 10: mandata, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 14, 3: si [[idem]] extrema persequitur qui inchoavit, id. Prov. Cons. 8, 19: vitam inopem et vagam, to [[lead]], id. Phil. 12, 7, 15.—Absol.: sed [[tamen]] ibo et persequar, [[will]] go and [[obey]], Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 64. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In partic., to [[follow]] [[out]] in [[speech]] or [[writing]], to [[set]] [[forth]], [[treat]] of, [[relate]], [[recount]], [[describe]], [[explain]], etc.: aliquid voce, Cic. Planc. 23, 56: dum rationes Persequor, [[set]] [[forth]], [[treat]] of, [[discuss]] the reasons, Lucr. 5, 56: quae versibus [[persecutus]] est [[Ennius]], Cic. Sen. 6, 16: philosophiam Latinis litteris, id. Ac. 1, 3, 12: aliquid scripturā, id. Fam. 15, 21, 4: obscenas voluptates, id. N. D. 1, 40, 111: res Hannibalis, id. Div. 1, 24, 49: has res in eo [[libro]], id. Off. 2, 24, 87: quae persequerer, si commemorare possem [[sine]] dolore, id. Fam. 5, 13, 3: da te in sermonem et persece Et confice, etc., Poët. ap. Cic. Att. 13, 23, 3.—*<br /><b>II</b> Neutr., to [[follow]] or [[come]] [[after]]: exacta [[vindemia]] gramine persecuto, [[when]] the [[grass]] has [[grown]] [[again]], Pall. 3, 26, 5.!*? In a [[pass]]. signif. (post-class.): [[illa]] se in [[mare]] praecipitavit, ne persequeretur, Hyg. Fab. 198 dub.—Hence, persĕquens, entis, P. a., used as subst. *<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[pursuer]], practiser: flagitii, Plaut. Cas. 2, 1, 13.— *<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> A revenger, [[avenger]]: inimicitiarum persequentissimus, Auct. Her. 2, 19, 29.
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=<b>persĕquor</b>,⁸ sĕcūtus et sĕquūtus sum, sĕquī, tr.,<br /><b>1</b> suivre obstinément, de bout en bout : Cleomenem persecuti sunt Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 91, ils continuèrent à suivre (suivirent jusqu’au bout) Cléomène ; aliquem ipsius vestigiis Cic. Br. 307, suivre qqn pas à pas &#124;&#124; celeritate scribendi persequi posse quæ dicuntur Cic. [[Sulla]] 42, grâce à la promptitude de l’écriture, pouvoir suivre les paroles, écrire aussi vite que la parole &#124;&#124; omnes solitudines Cic. Pis. 53, ne parcourir que des endroits déserts ; omnes vias Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 6, suivre tous les chemins, tenter tous les moyens<br /><b>2</b> poursuivre : fugientes Cæs. G. 7, 67, poursuivre les fuyards ; [[bello]] civitatem Cæs. G. 5, 1, 9, faire la guerre à outrance à une cité &#124;&#124; [fig.] <b> a)</b> venger : mortem alicujus Cæs. G. 7, 38, 8, venger la mort de qqn ; <b> b)</b> poursuivre en justice : Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3 ; Fam, 1, 9, 15 ; [d’où] [[jus]] suum persequi Cic. Cæc. 8, chercher à faire valoir son droit<br /><b>3</b> [fig.] s’attacher à, être sectateur de : horum hominum sectam [[atque]] instituta persequimur Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 181, voilà les hommes dont je [[suis]] fidèlement l’école et les [[principes]], cf. Cic. Ac. 1, 7 ; 2, 74 ; de Or. 2, 90 ; laudem cupidissime Cic. Rab. Post. 2, poursuivre passionnément la gloire<br /><b>4</b> suivre qqn jusqu’à l’atteindre : Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 3 &#124;&#124; [fig.] <b> a)</b> mener à bonne fin, accomplir : Cic. Prov. 19 ; Q. 2, 14, 3 ; <b> b)</b> faire rentrer [de l’argent] encaisser : Cic. Leg. 3, 18<br /><b>5</b> parcourir par écrit, exposer, raconter : philosophiam Latinis litteris Cic. Ac. 1, 12, traiter la [[philosophie]] en langue latine ; ceteros Cic. Phil. 2, 27, [[citer]] tous les autres à la suite ;<br /><b>6</b> explorer : [[persecutus]] [[putamen]] Petr. 33, 8, ayant exploré la coquille [de l’œuf]. sens passif : Hyg. Fab. 198.||celeritate scribendi persequi posse quæ dicuntur Cic. [[Sulla]] 42, grâce à la promptitude de l’écriture, pouvoir suivre les paroles, écrire aussi vite que la parole||omnes solitudines Cic. Pis. 53, ne parcourir que des endroits déserts ; omnes vias Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 6, suivre tous les chemins, tenter tous les moyens<br /><b>2</b> poursuivre : fugientes Cæs. G. 7, 67, poursuivre les fuyards ; [[bello]] civitatem Cæs. G. 5, 1, 9, faire la guerre à outrance à une cité||[fig.] <b> a)</b> venger : mortem alicujus Cæs. G. 7, 38, 8, venger la mort de qqn ; <b> b)</b> poursuivre en justice : Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3 ; Fam, 1, 9, 15 ; [d’où] [[jus]] suum persequi Cic. Cæc. 8, chercher à faire valoir son droit<br /><b>3</b> [fig.] s’attacher à, être sectateur de : horum hominum sectam [[atque]] instituta persequimur Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 181, voilà les hommes dont je [[suis]] fidèlement l’école et les [[principes]], cf. Cic. Ac. 1, 7 ; 2, 74 ; de Or. 2, 90 ; laudem cupidissime Cic. Rab. Post. 2, poursuivre passionnément la gloire<br /><b>4</b> suivre qqn jusqu’à l’atteindre : Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 3||[fig.] <b> a)</b> mener à bonne fin, accomplir : Cic. Prov. 19 ; Q. 2, 14, 3 ; <b> b)</b> faire rentrer [de l’argent] encaisser : Cic. Leg. 3, 18<br /><b>5</b> parcourir par écrit, exposer, raconter : philosophiam Latinis litteris Cic. Ac. 1, 12, traiter la [[philosophie]] en langue latine ; ceteros Cic. Phil. 2, 27, [[citer]] tous les autres à la suite ;<br /><b>6</b> explorer : [[persecutus]] [[putamen]] Petr. 33, 8, ayant exploré la coquille [de l’œuf]. sens passif : Hyg. Fab. 198.
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{{Georges
|georg=per-[[sequor]], secūtus [[sum]], sequī, I) einem Ggstde. [[beharrlich]] [[folgen]], [[nachfolgen]], [[nachgehen]], A) eig.: 1) im allg.: alqm ipsius vestigiis, Cic.: vestigia alcis, Cic.: [[quae]] te sola persequitur, Verg. – 2) insbes.: a) [[feindlich]] [[verfolgen]], [[nachsetzen]], fugientes, Caes.: u. so feras, [[jagen]], Ov.: beluas, Colum.: se [[mutuo]] (Ggstz. se [[mutuo]] [[amare]]), Salv. – absol., deterrere hostes a persequendo, Sall. – b) [[einen]] [[Ort]] forschend [[durchgehen]], [[durchforschen]], [[durchsuchen]], omnes solitudines, Cic. Pis. 53. – c) der [[Zeit]] [[nach]] [[nachfolgen]], [[erfolgen]], exactā vindemiā gramine persecuto, [[nachdem]] [[Gras]] darübergewachsen ist, Pallad. 3, 26, 5. – B) übtr.: 1) im allg.: viam me, [[quam]] [[decrevi]], persequi, Ter.: omnes vias, alle Wege [[einschlagen]], alle [[Mittel]] [[ergreifen]], Cic. – 2) insbes.: a) [[eifrig]] [[einer]] [[Sache]] [[nachgehen]], [[nach]] [[etwas]] [[streben]], [[etwas]] zu [[erreichen]] [[suchen]], [[aufsuchen]], voluptates, Cic.: suavitatem in vocibus, [[sich]] anzueignen [[suchen]], Cic.: [[ebenso]] eosdem flores, Cic. – b) [[eifrig]] [[einer]] [[Sache]] [[nachgehen]], -[[mit]] [[etwas]] [[sich]] [[beschäftigen]], -[[etwas]] [[betreiben]], artes, Cic.: [[non]] [[omnia]] deos persequi, Cic.: [[singula]], Sen. – c) [[nachahmen]], ironiam, Cic.: ea diligentissime, Cic.: alqm, Cic. – d) [[einer]] [[Sekte]] [[anhängen]], zu [[ihr]] [[sich]] [[bekennen]], Academiam, Cic.: sectam et instituta alcis, Cic. – e) rächend [[verfolgen]], -[[bestrafen]], [[rächen]], alqm [[bello]], Caes.: iniurias, Cic.: mortem alcis, Cic.: [[adulterium]], Sen.: mendacia, Sen. – f) gerichtl. usw. [[verfolgen]], α) eine Pers., alqm iudicio, Cic. – β) [[einen]] Ggstd. = zu [[behaupten]]-, geltend zu [[machen]] [[suchen]], zu [[erlangen]] [[suchen]], hereditatem, Ter.: [[ius]] suum, Cic.: [[bona]] sua lite [[atque]] iudicio, Cic.: u. so pecuniam ab alqo, [[einklagen]], Cic.: poenas a seditioso cive per bonos viros iudicio, Cic.: ex usu [[quod]] est id persequar, Ter. – g) eine [[Handlung]] [[bis]] zum [[Ende]] [[verfolgen]], [[etwas]] [[fortsetzen]], [[mit]] [[etwas]] [[fortfahren]], [[etwas]] [[ausführen]], [[vollziehen]], [[abschließen]], [[mit]] etw. [[aufräumen]], etw. [[beseitigen]], societatem, [[fortsetzen]], [[ferner]] [[unterhalten]], Cic.: quaerendo, [[fortfahren]] zu [[fragen]], Liv.: incepta, [[vollführen]], Liv.: mandata, [[vollziehen]], Cic.: vitam inopem et vagam, [[fort]] u. [[fort]] [[führen]], Cic.: tantam sollertiam in sensibus, den S. eine so große G. [[verschaffen]], Cic.: belli reliquias, Liv. u. Iustin.: si [[quid]] operis [[tibi]] [[etiamnum]] restat, id maximo opere [[censeo]] persequendum, Cic. – h) betrachtend-, erklärend-, beschreibend [[durchgehen]], [[erklären]], [[erzählen]], [[beschreiben]], [[vortragen]], [[dies]], [[omnia]], alqd versibus, Cic.: [[quod]] [[non]] persequar longius, Cic.: ceteros, Cic.: de alcis [[vita]], Nep.: dah. scripturā persequi, [[schriftlich]] [[abhandeln]], Cic. – II) prägn., (nachfolgend) [[erreichen]], [[einholen]], [[nachkommen]], zu jmd. od. etw. [[gelangen]], es [[finden]]. A) eig.: alqm ne persequi [[quidem]] posse [[triginta]] diebus, Cic.: [[mors]] et fugacem persequitur virum. Hor. – B) übtr.: 1) [[verdienen]], [[erwerben]], [[erlangen]], ICt. – 2) [[heben]], [[einziehen]], [[einkassieren]], hereditates [[aut]] syngraphas, Cic. de legg. 3, 18. – 3) [[nachschreiben]], protokollieren, celeritate scribendi, [[quae]] dicuntur, Cic. Sull. 42: [[multa]] [[diserte]] dixit, [[quae]] [[notarius]] persequi [[non]] potuit, Sen. apoc. 9, 2. – / [[Passiv]], [[illa]] se in [[mare]] praecipitavit, ne persequeretur, Hyg. fab. 198: in [[David]] [[persecutus]], Augustin. serm. 166, 2 [[Mai]].
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{{LaZh
|lnztxt=persequor, eris, cutus ''vel'' quutus sum, qui. d. 3. :: 追趕。磨難。效法。繼工。催訟。報仇。吿竣。— feras 打獵。— jus suum 催訟。— aliquid versibus 以詩述事情。— philosophiam Latinis litteris 以辣丁文講格物。— nominatim omnes 指各人之名。— mortem inedia 餓死。— inimicitias paternas 代父報仇。— instituta 繼工。推前意。— poenas a cive seditioso 治衅事之人。Persequens flagitiis 謀犯罪者。
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