Two
of his epigrams are preserved in the Greek Antho-
logy.
of his epigrams are preserved in the Greek Antho-
logy.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
1714), or of Typhon and that the Periegesis of Scymnus Chius quoted by
Echidna (Hygin. Fab. praef. ). Some, again, de- the ancient writers was written in prose, and was
scribe her as a monster with six heads of different an entirely different work from the extant poem,
animals, or with only three heads (Tzetz. ad Ly the author of which is quite unknown.
coph. 650 ; Eustath. 1. c. ). One tradition relates that SCYMNUS, artists. 1. A statuary and silver.
Scylla originally was a beautiful maiden, who often chaser, of high celebrity, but none of whose works
played with the nymphs of the sea, and was beloved were known in Pliny's time. He was the pupil
by the marine god Glaucus. He applied to Circe for of Critios, and must therefore have flourished
means to make Scylla return his love ; but Circe, about Ol. 83, B. C. 448. (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 8. 8.
jealous of the fair maiden, threw magic herbs into 19. $ 25. )
the well in which Scylla was wont to bathe, and by 2. An engraver of precious stones, one beautiful
these herbs the maiden was metamorphosed in such specimen of whose work is extant. It is not
a manner, that the upper part of her body remained known whether or not he was the same person as
that of a woman, while the lower part was changed the preceding. (R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn,
into the tail of a fish or serpent, surrounded by p. 154, 2d ed. )
dogs (Ov. Met. xiii. 732, &c. , 905, xiv. 40, &c. ; 3. A painter, whose picture of a female slave is
Tibull. iii. 4. 89). Another tradition related that mentioned by Hippocrates. He appears to have
Scylla was beloved by Poseidon, and that Amphi- flourished about Ol. 110, B. C. 340. (Nagler,
trite, from jealousy, metamorphosed her into a mon- Künstler Lericon, s. v. )
[P. S. ]
ster (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 45 ; Serv. ad Aen. iii. 420). SCYTHES (Exúons). 1. Tyrant or ruler of
Heracles is said to have killed her, because she had Zancle in Sicily, about 494 BC. The Zanclaeans
stolen some of the oxen of Geryon; but Phorcys is had sent to Ionia to invite colonists to join them
said to have restored her to life (Eustath. , Tzetz. , in founding a new city on the Kalt) 'Anth, or
Hygin. , l. c. ). Virgil (Aen. vi. 286) speaks of north shore of Sicily, and the offer had been ac-
Beveral Scyllae, and places them in the lower cepted by a large body of Samians, together with
world (comp. Lucret. v. 893). Charybdis is de some fugitives from Miletus ; but when they ar-
scribed as a daughter of Poseidon and Gaea, and rived at Locri, Scythes, at the head of the Zan-
as a voracious woman, who stole oxen from Heracles, claeans, was engaged in hostilities against the
and was hurled by the thunderbolt of Zeus into Sicels, and the Samians were persuaded by Anaxi-
the sea, where she retained her voracious nature. las of Rhegium to take advantage of his absence,
(Serv. ad Aen. iii. 420. )
and occupy the city of Zancle itself. Hereupon
2. A daughter of King Nisus of Megara, who, Scythes called in the assistance of his ally, Hip-
in consequence of her love of Minos, cut off the pocrates, tyrant of Gela, but the latter prored no
golden hair from her father's head, and thereby less perfidious than the Samians, and immediately
caused his death (Apollod. iii. 15. § 8). She has on his arrival threw Scythes himself and his brother
sometimes been confounded with the monster Pythogenes into chains, and sent them prisoners to
Scylla
[L. S. ] Inycus, while he betrayed his allies the Zanclaeans
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into the hands of the Samians. Scythes, however, I 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 sar-
king of Persia, where he was received with much castic verse upon him ; but, after his death, He-
distinction, 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 émioupos, A.
where 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. 1. 26, pp. 544, 545 ; Suid. s. v. , who appears to
23, 24; Aelian. V. H. 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 (Túpavvot) of their Of his works very little is known with certainty.
respective cities, styles Scythes king (Baoineús) or Suidas tells us that he wrote uelétas Pntopikás,
monarch (uoúvapxos) 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. O. Müller (Dorians, vol. i. p. 193, note) to be doubtful authenticity, and not of sufficient impor-
identical 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 Antho-
SCYTHIA’NUS (Ekvôlavós), 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. Ixvi. 2 ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 226, vol. xiii
. pp.
i. p. 866. )
[P. S. ] 950, 951. )
[P. S. ]
SCYTHI’NUS (Ekvbivos), 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
Téws). He turned into verse the great work of been supposed by some that the head on the
the philosopher Heracleitus (Diog. Laërt. 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. Phys. i. 9. & 43, p. 264). He is also men-
tioned 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 Antho-
logy. (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. i. pp. 142, 625,
vol. iv. p. 494. )
[P. S. )
SEBOʻSUS, STATIUS, a writer on geography,
cited by Pliny (H. N. vi. 29. s. 35, vi. 31. s. 36,
COIN OF M. ARRIUS SECUNDUS.
ix. 15. 8. 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,
SEBRÚS (Zlepos), 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 em-
Dorceus. )
[L. S. ] peror compelled him to fight. (Dion Cass. lix. 8;
SECUŃDI'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, JUʻLIUS, a Roran 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 Augustinum, Quintilian praises his elegantia, 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 Munichaeum, is given posterity the reputation of an illustrious orator.
in the works of the bishop of Hippo, in the eighth (Auctor, Dial. de Orat. 2, &c. ; Quintil. x. l.
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. Graec. vol. xi. p. 294. )
SECUNDUS, PEDA'NIUS. [PEDANJUS,
SECUNDUS (Zekoûvdos), Greek literary. No. 3. ]
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SEDULIUS,
SECUNDUS, PETRO'NIUS, praefectus prao SECUNDUS, VITRU'VIUS, secretary to
torio along with Norbanus in the reign of Domi- Commodus, was put to death along with Priemus
tian, and one of the parties privy to the murder and Julianus upon the discovery of the con spiracy
of the emperor. (Dion Cass. lxvii. 15; Eutrop. against the emperor in A. D. 183. (Lamprid. Com-
viii. 1. )
mod. 4. )
(W. R. )
SECUNDUS, PLI'NIUS. (PLINIUS)
SEDIGITUS, VOLCA'TIUS, is described by
SECUNDUS, POMPOʻNIUS. 1. A distin- Pliny (H. N. xi. 43) as “illustrem in Poëtica. "
guished poet in the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, A. Gellius (av. 24) has preserved from his work
and Claudius. He was one of the friends of de Poëtis, which appears to have been a sort of
Sejanus, and on the fall of that minister in a. D. metrical Didascalia, thirteen lambic 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 Atti-
accession of Caligula ; but his name does not occur lius, the sixth to Terentius, the seventh to Turpi-
in 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 re-
who 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, Veber den Canon des Vulca-
obtained the most celebrity. They are spoken of in tius Sedigitus, Programm zu Neustrelitz, 4to. 1812 ;
the highest terms by Tacitus, Quintilian, and the Klussmann, de Nuevio poëta. ) [W. R. ]
younger Pliny, and were read even in a much SEDU'LIUS, COELIUS, 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 Anony-
Dial. de Orat. 13 ; Quintil. x. I. $ 98 ; Plin. mus Mellicensis (c. 35, in the Bibl. Eccles. of
H. N. vii. 19, xiii. 12. 8. 26, xiv. 4. 8. 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
Scer.
Echidna (Hygin. Fab. praef. ). Some, again, de- the ancient writers was written in prose, and was
scribe her as a monster with six heads of different an entirely different work from the extant poem,
animals, or with only three heads (Tzetz. ad Ly the author of which is quite unknown.
coph. 650 ; Eustath. 1. c. ). One tradition relates that SCYMNUS, artists. 1. A statuary and silver.
Scylla originally was a beautiful maiden, who often chaser, of high celebrity, but none of whose works
played with the nymphs of the sea, and was beloved were known in Pliny's time. He was the pupil
by the marine god Glaucus. He applied to Circe for of Critios, and must therefore have flourished
means to make Scylla return his love ; but Circe, about Ol. 83, B. C. 448. (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 8. 8.
jealous of the fair maiden, threw magic herbs into 19. $ 25. )
the well in which Scylla was wont to bathe, and by 2. An engraver of precious stones, one beautiful
these herbs the maiden was metamorphosed in such specimen of whose work is extant. It is not
a manner, that the upper part of her body remained known whether or not he was the same person as
that of a woman, while the lower part was changed the preceding. (R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn,
into the tail of a fish or serpent, surrounded by p. 154, 2d ed. )
dogs (Ov. Met. xiii. 732, &c. , 905, xiv. 40, &c. ; 3. A painter, whose picture of a female slave is
Tibull. iii. 4. 89). Another tradition related that mentioned by Hippocrates. He appears to have
Scylla was beloved by Poseidon, and that Amphi- flourished about Ol. 110, B. C. 340. (Nagler,
trite, from jealousy, metamorphosed her into a mon- Künstler Lericon, s. v. )
[P. S. ]
ster (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 45 ; Serv. ad Aen. iii. 420). SCYTHES (Exúons). 1. Tyrant or ruler of
Heracles is said to have killed her, because she had Zancle in Sicily, about 494 BC. The Zanclaeans
stolen some of the oxen of Geryon; but Phorcys is had sent to Ionia to invite colonists to join them
said to have restored her to life (Eustath. , Tzetz. , in founding a new city on the Kalt) 'Anth, or
Hygin. , l. c. ). Virgil (Aen. vi. 286) speaks of north shore of Sicily, and the offer had been ac-
Beveral Scyllae, and places them in the lower cepted by a large body of Samians, together with
world (comp. Lucret. v. 893). Charybdis is de some fugitives from Miletus ; but when they ar-
scribed as a daughter of Poseidon and Gaea, and rived at Locri, Scythes, at the head of the Zan-
as a voracious woman, who stole oxen from Heracles, claeans, was engaged in hostilities against the
and was hurled by the thunderbolt of Zeus into Sicels, and the Samians were persuaded by Anaxi-
the sea, where she retained her voracious nature. las of Rhegium to take advantage of his absence,
(Serv. ad Aen. iii. 420. )
and occupy the city of Zancle itself. Hereupon
2. A daughter of King Nisus of Megara, who, Scythes called in the assistance of his ally, Hip-
in consequence of her love of Minos, cut off the pocrates, tyrant of Gela, but the latter prored no
golden hair from her father's head, and thereby less perfidious than the Samians, and immediately
caused his death (Apollod. iii. 15. § 8). She has on his arrival threw Scythes himself and his brother
sometimes been confounded with the monster Pythogenes into chains, and sent them prisoners to
Scylla
[L. S. ] Inycus, while he betrayed his allies the Zanclaeans
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into the hands of the Samians. Scythes, however, I 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 sar-
king of Persia, where he was received with much castic verse upon him ; but, after his death, He-
distinction, 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 émioupos, A.
where 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. 1. 26, pp. 544, 545 ; Suid. s. v. , who appears to
23, 24; Aelian. V. H. 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 (Túpavvot) of their Of his works very little is known with certainty.
respective cities, styles Scythes king (Baoineús) or Suidas tells us that he wrote uelétas Pntopikás,
monarch (uoúvapxos) 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. O. Müller (Dorians, vol. i. p. 193, note) to be doubtful authenticity, and not of sufficient impor-
identical 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 Antho-
SCYTHIA’NUS (Ekvôlavós), 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. Ixvi. 2 ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 226, vol. xiii
. pp.
i. p. 866. )
[P. S. ] 950, 951. )
[P. S. ]
SCYTHI’NUS (Ekvbivos), 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
Téws). He turned into verse the great work of been supposed by some that the head on the
the philosopher Heracleitus (Diog. Laërt. 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. Phys. i. 9. & 43, p. 264). He is also men-
tioned 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 Antho-
logy. (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. i. pp. 142, 625,
vol. iv. p. 494. )
[P. S. )
SEBOʻSUS, STATIUS, a writer on geography,
cited by Pliny (H. N. vi. 29. s. 35, vi. 31. s. 36,
COIN OF M. ARRIUS SECUNDUS.
ix. 15. 8. 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,
SEBRÚS (Zlepos), 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 em-
Dorceus. )
[L. S. ] peror compelled him to fight. (Dion Cass. lix. 8;
SECUŃDI'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, JUʻLIUS, a Roran 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 Augustinum, Quintilian praises his elegantia, 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 Munichaeum, is given posterity the reputation of an illustrious orator.
in the works of the bishop of Hippo, in the eighth (Auctor, Dial. de Orat. 2, &c. ; Quintil. x. l.
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. Graec. vol. xi. p. 294. )
SECUNDUS, PEDA'NIUS. [PEDANJUS,
SECUNDUS (Zekoûvdos), Greek literary. No. 3. ]
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764
SECUNDUS.
SEDULIUS,
SECUNDUS, PETRO'NIUS, praefectus prao SECUNDUS, VITRU'VIUS, secretary to
torio along with Norbanus in the reign of Domi- Commodus, was put to death along with Priemus
tian, and one of the parties privy to the murder and Julianus upon the discovery of the con spiracy
of the emperor. (Dion Cass. lxvii. 15; Eutrop. against the emperor in A. D. 183. (Lamprid. Com-
viii. 1. )
mod. 4. )
(W. R. )
SECUNDUS, PLI'NIUS. (PLINIUS)
SEDIGITUS, VOLCA'TIUS, is described by
SECUNDUS, POMPOʻNIUS. 1. A distin- Pliny (H. N. xi. 43) as “illustrem in Poëtica. "
guished poet in the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, A. Gellius (av. 24) has preserved from his work
and Claudius. He was one of the friends of de Poëtis, which appears to have been a sort of
Sejanus, and on the fall of that minister in a. D. metrical Didascalia, thirteen lambic 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 Atti-
accession of Caligula ; but his name does not occur lius, the sixth to Terentius, the seventh to Turpi-
in 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 re-
who 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, Veber den Canon des Vulca-
obtained the most celebrity. They are spoken of in tius Sedigitus, Programm zu Neustrelitz, 4to. 1812 ;
the highest terms by Tacitus, Quintilian, and the Klussmann, de Nuevio poëta. ) [W. R. ]
younger Pliny, and were read even in a much SEDU'LIUS, COELIUS, 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 Anony-
Dial. de Orat. 13 ; Quintil. x. I. $ 98 ; Plin. mus Mellicensis (c. 35, in the Bibl. Eccles. of
H. N. vii. 19, xiii. 12. 8. 26, xiv. 4. 8. 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
Scer.
