second (v.) Copy link Outline I. To promote, further, aidII. To support a motion • second (v.): I. To promote, further, aid: adjŭvo, jŭvo, 1: v. to aid, etc. Sometimes, subministrare (to keep supplying any one with anything) may serve: to s. with money, arms, provisions, pecuniam, tela, frumentum alicui subministrare (v. to supply): also sometimes, secundas ferre, secundas partes agere (to act a subordinate part for the advantage of another): v. second, adj. (1). (Hardly secundare, which, however, occurs in kindred sense, Virg. Aen. 7, 259, di nostra incepta secundent, i. e. render them successful.) II. To support a motion: perh. in sententiam alicujus dicere; sententiae alicujus auctorem (suasorem) fieri: cf. Sall. Cat. 56.