Secundus
Σεκοῦνδος
(Σεκοῦνδος), Greek literary.
1. Of Athens, a distinguished sophist of the time of Hadrian, and one of the teachers of Herodes Atticus, who quarrelled with him, and wrote a sarcastic verse upon him; but, after his death, Herodes pronounced his funeral oration, and shed tears over him. He was the son of a carpenter, whence he obtained the nickname of ἐπίουρος. A cording to Philostratus, he was exceedingly learned, but very interior as a critic. (Philostr. Vit. Soph. 1.26, pp. 544, 545; Suid. s.v. who appears to have confounded him with Pliny! though the reading is doubtful.)
Works
μελέτας ῥητορικάς
Of his works very little is known with certainty. Suidas tells us that he wrote μελέτας ῥητορικάς, and we have in Philostratus the theme and heads of his most celebrated rhetorical exercise.
Sententiae
There is a collection of Sententiae ascribed to him, of doubtful authenticity, and not of sufficient importance to require further notice here. The whole question respecting them is discussed, and an account of their MSS. and editions given, in Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. vol. i. pp. 866-870.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.