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SECUNDUS, PUBLIUS POMPONIUS

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SECUNDUS, PUBLIUS See also:POMPONIUS , See also:Roman See also:general and tragic poet, lived during the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula and See also:Claudius. He was on intimate terms with the See also:elder See also:Pliny, who wrote a See also:biography of him (now lost). The See also:chief authority for his See also:life is See also:Tacitus, according to whom Secundus was a See also:man of refine`-ment and brilliant See also:intellect. His friendship with See also:Sejanus and his See also:brother made him politically suspect, and he only escaped See also:death by remaining practically a prisoner in his own brother's See also:house until the See also:accession of Caligula. During his enforced retirement he composed tragedies, which were put on the See also:stage during the reign of Claudius. In A.D. 50 he distinguished himself against the See also:Chatti and obtained the See also:honour of the triumphal insignia. See also:Quintilian asserts that he was far See also:superior to any writer of tragedies he had known, and Tacitus expresses a high See also:opinion of his See also:literary abilities. Secundus devoted much See also:attention to the niceties of See also:grammar and See also:style, on which he was recognized as an authority. Only a few lines of his See also:work remain, some of which belong to the tragedy See also:Aeneas. See O. See also:Ribbeck, Geschichte der romischen Dichtung, iii.

(1892). and Tragicorum Romanorum fragmenta (1897); Tacitus, See also:

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); See also:Teuffel, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 19oo), 284, 7.

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