secundarius

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

sĕcundārĭus, a, um, adj. [secundus].

I Of or belonging to the second class , sort , or quality (mostly technical); second-rate , middling , inferior : mel, Col. 12, 11, 1: passum, id. 12, 39, 2; Plin. 14, 9, 11, § 82: triticum (v. cibarium), id. 18, 9, 20, § 87: panis, id. 18, 10, 20, § 89; Suet. Aug. 76 et saep.—

II Of abstr. things (Ciceron.): in hoc loco caput erit illud accusatori, si demonstrare poterit, etc. ... secundarium, si, etc., Cic. Inv. 2, 7, 24: habet statum res publica de tribus secundarium, id. Rep. 1, 42, 65.

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