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.