hi, i’ve been looking everywhere on how to say ‘second best’ ive been run around with ‘unus et alter’ but i think thats just ‘one of two’. now im starting to think something like ‘secundus optimus’??? any help will be muchly appreciated!!!.
thanks guys..
ille qui secundas [sc. partes] agit/fert.
vel voce passiva:
cui secundae tribuuntur/dantur, &c.
vel similiter:
ille qui sucundum obtinet locum.
uel sine circumlocutionibus supra (sed subAnglice!):
secundus ab optimo
cf. Hor.S.2.3.193 Aiax, heros ab Achille secundus.
Plin.NH.5.72 Machaerus, secunda quondam arx Iudaeae ab Hierosolymis.
Instead of ab+abl, occasionally a dative can be used, cf. Sen.Ep.92.7 excedat ex hoc animalium numero pulcherrimo ac dis secundo.
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My support to Whiteoctave, as that was what I was going to say. 
Really? I genuinely admire your tendency of not bearing any grudges, since he did kind of call you a twat.