īnsector ātus, arī, dep. freq. insequor, to pursue, follow up: exercitum: herbam rastris, i. e. extirpate, V.

—Fig., of speech, to pursue, attack, rail at, inveigh against: ultro Insectere velut melior? lecture, H.: etiam et etiam: nullius calamitatem: carmina Livi, H.