assĕcla

I. masc.) [assequor], a follower, an attendant, servant, sycophant (with the accessory idea of contempt, different from assectator; cf. Ruhnk. ad Vell. 2, 83): assentatores eorum atque adseculae, Cic. Corn. Fragm. ap. Orell. IV. 2, p. 453: legatorum adseculae, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 25: cum adseculae suo tetrarchian dedisset, id. Div. 2, 37, 79; id. Sest. 64 fin. Orell. (ed. min.); id. Att. 6, 3, 6: assecla praetoris, Nep. Att. 6, 4: adseculae, Juv. 9, 48 dub. Jahn.