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into the hands of the Samians. Scythes, however, 1. Of Athens, a distinguished sophist of the time
contrived to make his escape to Himera, and from of Hadrian, and one of the teachers of Herodes
thence repaired to Asia, to the court of Dareius, Atticus, who quarrelled with him, and wrote a sarking of Persia, where he was received with much castic verse upon him; but, after his death, Hedistinction, and rose to a high place in the rodes pronounced his funeral oration, and shed
king's favour. He afterwards revisited his native tears over him. He was the son of a carpenter,
city, but again returned to the Persian court, whence he obtained the nickname of rWLoupos. Acwhere he died at an advanced age, and in the pos- cording to Philostratus, he was exceedingly learned,
session of great wealth, while he enjoyed general but very inferior as a critic. (Philostr. Vit. Soph.
esteem for the probity of his character (Herod. vi. i. 26, pp. 544, 545; Suid. s. v., who appears to
23, 24; Aelian. V. II. viii. 17). It is remark- have confounded him with Pliny! though the
able that Herodotus, while he designates Anaxilas reading is doubtful.)
and Hippocrates as tyrants (rTvpavvoL) of their Of his works very little is known with certainty.
respective cities, styles Scythes king (laaemhevs) or Suidas tells us that he wrote ALEE'Tnas p77vopLKas,
monarch (eomivapXos) of the Zanclaeans. and we have in Philostratus the theme and heads
2. The father of Cadmus, tyrant of Cos, men- of his most celebrated rhetorical exercise. There
tioned by Herodotus (vii. 163), is supposed by is a collection of Sententiae ascribed to him, of
K. 0. Muller (Dorians, vol. i. p. 193, note) to be doubtful authenticity, and not of sufficient imporidentical with the preceding [CADMUS]. The tance to require further notice here. The whole
subsequent removal of Cadmus to Zancle cer- question respecting them is discussed, and an account
tainly gives much probability to the conjecture. of their MSS. and editions given, in Fabricius,
Valckenaer and Larcher, however (ad Herod. vi. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. pp. 866-870.
23, vii. 163) consider him to have been another per- 2. Of Tarentum, an epigrammatic poet, three of
son of the same family. [E. H. B.] whose epigrams are preserved in the Greek AnthoSCYTHIA'NUS (Y.KvOLzaJs), a Manichaean logy. His verses were included in the collection
heretic, who, according to Epiphanius, supported of Philip of Thessalonica, about whose time he
his opinions by the philosophy of Pythagoras., seems to have lived. (Brunck, Anal. vol. iii. p. 5;
(Epiphan. Haer. lxvi. 2; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. Jacobs, Ant/h. Graec. vol. iii. p. 226, vol. xiii. pp.
i. p. 866.) [P. S.] 950, 951.) [P. S.]
SCYTHI'NUS (0cvO7?os), of Teos, an iambic SECUNDUS, M. A'RRIUS, known only from
poet, mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v. coins, a specimen of which is annexed. It has
Tews). He turned into verse the great work of been supposed by some that the head on the
the philosopher Heracleitus (Diog. Laiirt. ix. 16; obverse is that of Augustus; by others that of
see Menag. ad loc.). A considerable fragment, Arrius himself: but it is impossible to obtain any
apparently from this work, is preserved by Stobaeus certainty on the point. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 143.)
(Eclog. PhZys. i. 9. ~ 43, p. 264). He is also mentioned by Athenaeus (xi. p. 461), and twice by
Plutarch, who quotes from him some verses re-
specting the lyre (Op. Mor. pp. 402, 705). Two
of his epigrams are preserved in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 104; Jacobs,
Anth. Graec. vol. ii. p. 91, vol. xiii. p. 950; Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 866, vol. ii. pp. 142, 625,
vol. iv. p. 494.) [P.S.]
SEBO'SUS, STA'TIUS, a writer on geography,
cited by Pliny (H. N. vi. 29. s. 35, vi. 31. s. 36, COIN OF M. ARRIUS SECUNDUS.
ix. 15. s. 17; Solin. 52). He is perhaps the same
as Sebosus, the friend of Catulus. (Cic. ad Att. SECUNDUS, ATA'NIUS, vowed during an
ii. 14, 15.) illness of Caligula to fight in the gladiatorial games,
SEBRUS (126pos), a son of Hippocoon, was if the emperor recovered, expecting to be rewarded
worshipped as a hero at Sparta, where he had an for his devotion. But when Caligula got well, and
heroum called Sebrium. (Paus. iii. 15. ~ 1; comp. Secundus was unwilling to fulfil his vow, the emDORCEuS.) [L. S.] peror compelled him to fight. (Dion Cass. lix. 8;
SECUND1'NUS, a Manichaean, known to us comp. Suet. Calig. 27.)
only as the author of a letter addressed to Augus- SECUNDUS CARI'NAS. [CARINAS, No. 4.]
tine, in which he gently upbraids him for having SECUNDUS, JU'LIUS, a Roman orator and
deserted the sect to which he was once attached, a friend of Quintilian, is one of the speakers in the
and urges him in the most earnest and flattering Dialogus de Oratoribus, usually ascribed to Tacitus.
language to return. This Epistola ad Augustinunz, Quintilian praises his eleganetia, and says that if
which is totally destitute of merit, together with he had lived longer, he would have obtained with
the reply Contra Secundinum 3l/anichlaeum, is given posterity the reputation of an illustrious orator.
in the works of the bishop of Hippo, in the eighth (Anctor, Dial. de Orat. 2, &c.; Quintil. x. 1.
volume of the Benedictine edition. [W. R.] ~ 120, xii. 10. ~ 11.)
SECUNDI'NUS, NICOLA'US, a learned SECUNDUS, MA!RIUS, was governor of
Greek of the island of Euboea, who acted as Phoenicia, under Macrinus, and took a share in
interpreter at the council of Florence in A. D. the administration of Egypt also. He was slain in
1438, and the following years. He translated the tumult which arose when intelligence was first
several Greek works into Latin: but his life does received of the victory achieved by Elagabalus.
not fall within the limits of the present work. (Dion Cass. lxxviii. 35.) [W. R.]
(Fabric. Bibl. Grace. vol. xi. p. 294.) SECUNDUS, PEDA'N1US. [PEDANIUS,
SECUNDUS (,oEKoa8os), Greek literary. No. 3.]