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764 SECUNDUS. SEDULIUS.
SECUNDUS, PETRO'NIUS, praefectus prae- SECUNDUS, VITRU'VIUS, secretary to
torio along with Norbanus in the reign of Domi- Commodus, was put to death along with Paternus
tian, and one of the parties privy to the murder and Julianus upon the discovery of the conspiracy
of the emperor. (Dion Cass. lxvii. 15; Eutrop. against the emperor in A. D. 183. (Lamprid. Cornviii. 1.) mod. 4.) [W. R.]
SECUNDUS, PLI'NIUS. [PLINIUS.] SEDI'GITUS, VOLCA'TIUS, is described by
SECUNDUS, POMPO'NIUS. 1. A distin. Pliny (H. N. xi. 43) as " illustrem in Pobtica."
guished poet in the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, A. Gellius (xv. 24) has preserved from his work
and Claudius. He was one of the friends of de Po'tis, which appears to have been a sort of
Sejanus, and on the fall of that minister in A. n. metrical Didascalia, thirteen Iambic senarians, in
31 was thrown into prison, where he remained till which the principal Latin comic dramatists are
the accession of Caligula in A. D. 37, by whom he enumerated in the order of merit. In this " Canon,"
was released, and who raised him to the consul- as it has been termed, the first place is assigned to
ship in A. D. 41. Dion Cassius says (lix. 6), Caecilius Statius, the second to Plautus, the third
that he had been consul seven years before the to Naevius, the fourth to Licinius, the fifth to Attiaccession of Caligula; but his name does not occur lius, the sixth to Terentius, the seventh to Turpiin the Fasti. In the reign of Claudius he was lius, the eighth to Trabea, the ninth to Luscius,
appointed the emperor's legatus in Germany, and the tenth, "causa antiquitatis," to Ennius. In
in A. D. 50 defeated the Chatti, and obtained addition to these verses, two fragments, probably
the honour of the triumphal ornaments. Secun- from the same piece with the above, one a single
dus was an intimate friend of the elder Pliny, line, the other extending to three, and both rewho showed his affection for him by writing his ferring to Terence, are quoted in the life of that
life in two books. Tacitus speaks of him (Ann. writer ascribed to Suetonius. (Burmann, Anthol.
v. 8) as a man " multa morum elegantia et ingenio Lat ii. 223, or No. 140, ed. Meyer; Osann, Anal.
illustri." It was by his tragedies that Secundus Crit. p. 3; Ludewig, Ueber den Canon des Vulcaobtained the most celebrity. They are spoken of in flus Sedigitus, Programm zu Neustrelitz, 4to. 1842;
the. highest terms by Tacitus, Quintilian, and the Klussmann, de Naeovio po'ta.) [W. R.]
younger Pliny, and were read even in a much SEDU'LIUS, COE'LIUS, a Christian poet,
later age, as one of them is quoted by the gram- who is termed a presbyter by Isidorus of Seville
marian Charisius (Tac. Ann. v. 8, vi. 18; Dion (de Script. Eccles. c. 7), and by Honorius of Autun
Cass. lix. 6, 29; Tac. Ann. xi. 13, xii. 27, 28; (de S. E. iii. 7). By the writer known as AnonyDial. de Orat. 13; Quintil. x. 1. ~ 98; Plin. mus Mellicensis (c. 35, in the Bibl. Eccles. of
Ii. N. vii. 19, xiii. 12. s. 26, xiv. 4. s. 6; Plin. Fabricius) he is called an Antistes, a title confirmed
Ep. iii. 5, vii. 17; Charisius, ap. Bothe, Poet. by two acrostic panegyrics to be found in the
Seen. Lat. F'agmn. vol. ii. p. 279). The prae- edition of Cellarius, while by Sigebertus of Gemmnomen of Pomponius Secundus is doubtful. In bloux (de S. E. 6), and by Trithemius (de S.'.
one passage Tacitus calls him Publius (Ann. xi. 142) he is designated as a bishop-to which an13), and in another Lucius (Ann. xii. 27), while tistes is frequently equivalent-but no one has preDion Cassius (lix. 6) names him Quintus. Tacitus, tended to discover the see over which he presided.
however, call his brother Quintus. [No. 2.] We cannot determine with absolute precision the
2. Q. PoMPONIUS SECUNDUS, the brother of the date either of his birth or of his death, but the
preceding, a man of abandoned character, accused period when he flourished may be defined within
Sancia and others towards the end of the reign of narrow limits. He refers (Epist. ad Maced.) to the
Tiberius, under the pretext of warding off dangers commentaries of Jerome, who died A. D. 420, and is
from his brother by acquiring the favour of the himself praised by Cassiodorus (de Instit. div. let,
emperor. He subsequently revolted against the 27; comp. Venant. Fortunat. Carrm. viii. 1; Vit.
emperor Claudius. (Tac. Ann. vi. 18, xiii. 43.) S. 1Martin. i. 15), who was born A. D. 468, and by
POPPAEUS, Q. SECUNDUS, consul suf- Pope Gelasius, who presided over the Roman
fectus A. D. 9, with M. Papius Mutilus. These Church from A. D. 492 to A. D. 496. Moreover,
consuls gave their names to the celebrated Papia his works were collected after his death and pubPoppaea lex, frequently called Jalia et Papia Pop- lished by Asterius, as we learn from a short intropaea. (Dion Cass. lvi. 1 0; Diet. of Antiq. p. 691, ductory epigram, to which'is added, in some MSS.,
2d ed.) the note " Hoc opus Sedulius inter chartulas disSECUNDUS, SA'TRIUS, a dependant of Se- persum reliquit: quod recollectum adornatumque
janus, accused Cremutius Cordus in A.D. 25. He ad omnem elegantiam divulgatum est a Turcio
afterwards betrayed his master, and gave informa- Rufio Asterio V. C. consule ordinario atque pation to Tiberius of the conspiracy which Sejanus tricio." Upon turning to the Fasti we discover
had formed against him. Josephus relates (sAnt. that an Asterius was consul along with Protogenes
xviii. 6) that Antonia informed Tiberius of the in A.D. 449, and that Turcius Rufus Apronianus
conspiracy of Sejanus; and hence it has been con- Asterius was consul along with Praesidius in A. D.
jectured that Secundus, unwilling or unable to 496. Combining these facts little doubt can be
have an interview with the emperor, had acquainted entertained that the latter is the person indicated
Antonia with the plot. Secundus was married to above, and that we may fix the epoch of Sedulius
the notorious Albucilla. (Tac. Ann. iv. 34, vi. 8, about A. D. 450. Of his personal history we know
47; Senec. Consol. ad Marciam, 22.) nothing whatsoever. By Trithemius (I. c.) indeed
SECUNDUS, VI'BIUS, a Roman eques, was he is said to have been a Scot, the disciple of
accused of malversation (repetundae) in Mauritania, archbishop Hildebert; but this and similar stateand condemned, A. D. 60. He was banished from ments arose, it would appear, from confounding
Italy, and escaped a heavier punishment through three different persons, all ecclesiastics, who bore
the influence of his brother Vibius Crispus. (Tac. the same name:- 1. Sedulius, the poet, who beAnn. xiv. 28.) longs, as we have proved, to the fifth century.