(), or SECUNDIA'NUS (Σεκυνδιανός), as he is called by Ctesias, was one of the illegitimate sons of
Artaxerxes I. Longimanus. The latter on his death in B. C. 425 was
succeeded by his legitimate son Xerxes II., but this monarch after a reign of only two months
was murdered by Sogdianus, who now became king. Sogdianus, however, was murdered in his turn
after a reign of seven months, by his brother Ochus, as is related in the life of the latter.
Ochus reigned under the name of Dareius II. [DAREIUS II.] (Diod. 12.71 ; Ctesias, Pers. 100.44.)