second (adj.) Copy link Outline 1. sĕcundus2. in enumerations, alter, ĕra, ĕrum • second (adj.): 1. sĕcundus: pass. In fig. sense: (the hero Ajax) s. to Achilles, ab Achille s., Hor. S. 2, 3, 193: Auct. B. Alex. (in Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 52, occurs, ad regium principatum s.; but this is on account of the proxime accedere, immediately preceding): to take a s. part, s. (sc. partes) ferre, Hor. S. 1, 9, 46 (cf. Cic. Div. Verr. 15, 48, ille qui est secundarum aut tertiarum partium): s. partes agere, Orell. in loco (nearly = colloq. phr. to play s. fiddle to any one). For the s. time, secundum (rare): Liv. 7, 3 (Cn. Genucius, L. Aemilio Mamercino secundum [usu. iterum] consulibus): and secundo (also very rare), Auct. B. Alex. 40 (Pontica legio quum fossam circumire secundo [= iterum] conata esset). Soldiers of the s. legion, Secundani, Liv.: Tac. 2. in enumerations, alter, ĕra, ĕrum: cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 7, 20, primo die ... alter dies ... tertius dies ... reliquis diebus. Even with other ordinals: on the twenty-s. day, altero vicesimo die, Cic. Fam. 12, 25: a s. Hannibal, a. Hannibal, cf. Liv. 21, 10, med.: use is s. nature, usus est altera natura, Prov. Fig.: ranking s. to, alter ab aliquo, Virg. E. 5, 49. Phr.: for the s. time, ĭtĕrum (v. supr. 1): in the s. place, deinde, cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 58, primum ... deinde ... deinde: also, primum ... tum ... deinde ..., id. Fin. 5, 23, 65 (secundo, in this sense, very rare; and barely classical: it occurs, however, Varr. in Non. 149, 15): s. thoughts are, it is said, apt to be the wiser, posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) solent sapientiores esse, Cic. Ph. 12, 2, 5.