Secundinus

Secundinus was a common Latin name in late antiquity, and the seven letters attributed to this entry appear to combine more than one person. Recipients of this name figure in two unconnected collections separated by more than a century: the Gallo-Roman circle of Sidonius Apollinaris in fifth-century Gaul (c. 470s) and the correspondence of Pope Gregory the Great (590-604), who addressed letters to a Secundinus described in the tradition as a recluse or anchorite. Because the record conflates these distinct correspondents and no single Secundinus is individually well attested beyond these letters, no unified biography can responsibly be given. He is known chiefly as a recipient within these collections, and any office, dates, or relationships beyond that would be invented rather than known.