Secundus
Secundus
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Secundus (2nd cent.)
塞孔杜斯 (Secundus)（2 世纪 (2nd cent.)）
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Pythagorean philosopher (perhaps fictional) in the time of Hadrian.
哈德良 (Hadrian) 时代的毕达哥拉斯派 (Pythagorean) 哲学家（或许是虚构的）。
Pythagorean philosopher (perhaps fictional) in the time of Hadrian. He is the subject of a ‘Life’, written in Greek, but translated into Syriac, as well as several other languages. The Syriac, which is alluded to by Isḥaq of Nineveh in his Homily 57, survives in an incomplete form. The work has two parts, a frame story and a set of answers to 20 philosophical questions beginning ‘What is … ?’. These are put to him by Hadrian on a visit to Athens to consult him. Only one question (‘What is death?’) survives in Syriac, but a number of extra answers for this, not found in the Greek, are given.
哈德良 (Hadrian) 时代的一位毕达哥拉斯学派 (Pythagorean) 哲学家（或许是虚构人物）。他是一部《生平》(Life) 的主人公，该书用希腊语 (Greek) 写成，但被翻译成叙利亚语 (Syriac) 以及几种其他语言。该叙利亚语 (Syriac) 版本在尼尼微的伊萨克 (Isḥaq of Nineveh) 的《第 57 篇讲道》(Homily 57) 中被提及，现存形式不完整。该作品分为两部分：一个框架故事和一组对 20 个哲学问题的回答，这些问题以“什么是……？”开头。这些问题是哈德良 (Hadrian) 在访问雅典 (Athens) 咨询他时提出的。只有一个问题（“什么是死亡？”）在叙利亚语 (Syriac) 中幸存下来，但针对这个问题给出了一些额外的回答，这些回答未见于希腊语 (Greek) 版本。
References
G. W. Bowersock, The Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire (1969), 118–9. (identifies him with the sophist Secundus mentioned by Philostratus)
S. P. Brock, ‘Secundus the Silent Philosopher: some notes on the Syriac tradition’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 121 (1978), 94–100. (On allusion by Isḥaq, with ET; repr. in Studies in Syriac Christianity [1992], ch. IX)
, ‘Stomathalassa, Dandamis and Secundus in a Syriac monastic anthology’, in After Bardaisan, ed. Reinink and Klugkist, 35–50, esp. 46–7.
B. E. Perry, Secundus the Silent Philosopher (1964). (includes a reproduction of the Syriac text, originally published in E. Sachau, Inedita Syriaca [1870], 84–8).
Citation
Sebastian P. Brock. 2011. “Secundus.” In Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Beth Mardutho. https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Secundus.