(Σεκοῦνδος), Greek literary.
1. Of Athens, a distinguished sophist of the time of Hadrian, and one of the teachers of Herodes Atticus, who quarrelled with him, and wrote a sarcastic verse upon him; but, after his death, Herodes pronounced his funeral oration, and shed tears over him. He was the son of a carpenter, whence he obtained the nickname of ἐπίουρος. A cording to Philostratus, he was exceedingly learned, but very interior as a critic. (Philostr. Vit. Soph. 1.26, pp. 544, 545; Suid. s.v. who appears to have confounded him with Pliny! though the reading is doubtful.)