I.over and above what is necessary, needless, unnecessary, superfluous, supervacaneous (class.): “vasa,” supernumerary, extra, Cato, R. R. 12: “opus,” i. e. done at leisure hours, Cic. Sen. 16, 56: “litterae,” id. Att. 16, 2, 5: “commemoratio officiorum,” id. Fam. 3, 5, 1: “oratio,” Liv. 22, 39: “defensio Pauli,” id. 45, 37: “iter,” id. 21, 13: “actio,” Just. 11, 12 fin.: “instituta (opp. necessaria),” Suet. Rhet. 1: “quicquid supervacaneum sit, aut usum non habeat, obstare,” Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 99; cf.: “omnia ita nata atque ita locata sunt, ut nihil eorum supervacaneum sit,” id. ib. 2, 47, 121: “descriptio omnium corporis partium, in quā nihil inane, nihil sine causā, nihil supervacaneum,” id. ib. 1, 33, 92: “de timore supervacaneum est disserere,” Sall. C. 51, 19; 58, 11: “quin alter consul pro supervacaneo atque inutili habeatur,” Liv. 10, 24.—* Adv.: sŭper-văcānĕō , uselessly, superfluously. Front. Ep. ad Caes. 4, 3 med.
sŭper-văcānĕus , a, um, adj. vacuus,