“follow” in Latin

(1) (1) To follow after, sequi: consesequi: insequi: subsequi (to follow immediately or close to): prosequi (to follow a certain distance, is mostly used of accompanying anybody as a mark of respect, etc.; e.g., funeris exsequias prosequi): persequi (a strengthened sequi, to follow an object with eager or continued pursuit, or up to a certain limit; all with accusative): comitari aliquem (to accompany anybody): inter comites alicujus aspici (to belong to anybody’s retinue). An unusual multitude followed him, stipatus est non usitata frequentia: to follow anybody’s colors or standard, signa or castra alicujus sequi: to follow anybody’s traces, alicujus or alicujus rei vestigia persequi; also, persequi aliquem or aliquid. Cf.,” To follow” is sometimes translated by ille, when hic describes what precedes; haec oblectationis, illa (= those which will follow) necessitatis (Cic.). (2) To come after anybody or anything (with reference to order, rank, dignity, or time); succedere alicui and alicui rei (to follow and take the place, etc., that the other filled): excipere aliquem and aliquid (litterally, to take anybody or anything up, as it were; i. e., to follow immediately; seldom, as in Caes., B.G., 2, 7, without accusative; Vid: Held, ad loc.): continuari alicui rei (to be, as it were, joined on to it; to follow it without any interval; e.g., paci externae confestim continuatur discordia domi). To follow anybody (as his successor), succedere in alicujus locum, or succedere only; on the throne, regno; in alicujus locum suffici (to be elected in the national assembly as anybody’s successor): the consuls follow each other in a different order in different (historians), aliter apud alios consules ordinati sunt: summer follows winter, hiemem aestas excipit: day follows night, noctem dies subsequitur: one age follows another, aetas succedit aetati: one misfortune follows another, *malum excipit malum: one fraud follows another, fallacia alia aliam trudit (Ter., Andr., 4, 4, 39): to let the act immediately follow the resolution, consultis facta jungere. (3) To proceed or result from anything, sequi, consequi aliquid (e.g., poena scelus sequitur; terrorem pallor consequitur): manare ex aliqua re (to follow from it; e.g., faults are followed by sins, peccata ex vitiis manant): effici, confici ex aliqua re (as philosophical technical term, “to be inferred from;” e.g., from the premises, ex propositis effici; from a syllogism, ex ratiocinatione confici: hence it follows, inde sequitur, or efficitur, or patet; ex quo effici cogique potest; i. e., hence the conclusion may be drawn). Hence it follows, sequitur (with ut, or accusative and infinitive.); sequitur igitur or enim (☞ not inde or ex quo sequitur); ex quo efficitur: what, then, follows from this? quid igitur? quid ergo est? quid postea? thus it follows that, etc., ita fit, ut etc.: the one follows from the other, alterum alteri consequens est. Cf.,” To follow,” in negative and interrogative clauses, is often best translated by continuo; continuone? (e.g., non continuo, si me in gregem sicariorum contuli, sum sicarius, it does not follow that I am an assassin, because, etc.: si malo careat, continuone fruitur summo bono?if he is exempt from evil, does it follow that he enjoys the height of happiness? (4) To be guided by anybody’s example, etc., sequi aliquem or aliquid (general term): auctoritate alicujus moveri (to allow one’s self to be influenced by anybody’s authority; to follow anybody’s counsel, etc.): alicui obtemperare (to make one’s own wishes yield to those of another): dicto alicujus audientem esse (to obey anybody’s commands). To follow anybody’s opinion, views, etc., sententiam alicujus sequi; sententiam alicujus probare (to approve of them): anybody’s advice ought to have been followed, alicujus consilium valere debebat or debuit: to follow no guide but one’s self, suo uti ingenio: follow my advice! mihi crede! or crede mihi! (i. e., let me prevail on you to do what I am doing, or to act like me; Vid: Cic., Tusc., I, 31): to follow a physician’s prescriptions, legibus medici se obligare; praeceptis medici uti (after Ov., A.A., 3, 410): not to follow them, medentis praecepta negligere (after Plin., Pan., 22, 3): to follow one’s own inclinations, animi impetum sequi. (5) To be of anybody’s party, alicujus partis or partium esse; alicujus partes or causam sequi; alicujus sectam sequi (this especially, but not solely, of a philosophical sect), cum aliquo facere; ab or cum aliquo stare; alicujus rebus studere or favere; alicujus esse studiosum: some follow one party, some another, alii alias partes fovent. (6) To follow a trade or profession, facere (e.g., mercaturam, piraticam): factitare (e.g., artem, medicinam): exercere (e.g., artem, medicinam, studia): colere (e.g., artes studiaque; agrum, the plough): tractare (e.g., artem): studere alicui rei (e.g., agriculturae; litteris). To follow one’s own business, sua negotia obire; suas res administrare: to follow the law, ad juris studium se conferre. 6) As follows (in a narration, to introduce a speech, etc.): he spoke as follows, haec locutus est; his ferme verbis usus est; in hunc modum locutus fertur. Vid: “to this EFFECT. “