Apology, excuse: “there needs no such a.” R3 III, 7, 104. LLL V, 1, 142. V, 2, 597. All's II, 4, 51. Rom. I, 4, 2. In Lucr. 31 it is evidently used in the sense of encomium, high praise: what needeth then --ies be made, to set forth that which is so singular?