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SECUNDUS, PUBLIUS POMPONIUS

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 574 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SCY-SHA
SECUNDUS, PUBLIUS POMPONIUS , Roman general and tragic poet, lived during the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula and
Claudius
 . He was on intimate terms with the elder Pliny, who wrote a
biography
  of him (now lost). The
chief
  authority for his
life
  is Tacitus, according to whom Secundus was a man of refine`-ment and brilliant intellect. His friendship with Sejanus and his brother made him politically suspect, and he only escaped death by remaining practically a prisoner in his own brother's
house
  until the accession of Caligula. During his enforced retirement he composed tragedies, which were put on the stage during the reign of
Claudius
 . In A.D. 50 he distinguished himself against the
Chatti
  and obtained the honour of the triumphal insignia. Quintilian asserts that he was far superior to any writer of tragedies he had known, and Tacitus expresses a high
opinion
  of his literary abilities. Secundus devoted much attention to the niceties of grammar and style, on which he was recognized as an authority. Only a few lines of his
work
  remain, some of which belong to the tragedy Aeneas.
See O. Ribbeck, Geschichte der romischen Dichtung, iii. (1892).
and Tragicorum Romanorum fragmenta (1897); Tacitus, Annals, v. 8, xi. 13, xii. 28; Quintilian, Inst. Orat. x. 1. 98; Pliny, Nat. Hist. xiv. 5; M. Schanz, Geschtichte der remischen Literatur, ii. 2 (1900); Teuffel, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 19oo), 284, 7.


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