I.useless, needless, unnecessary, superfluous, redundant (not ante-Aug.; “while supervacaneus is class.): omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat,” Hor. A. P. 337: “non tam obest audire supervacua quam ignorare necessaria,” Quint. 12, 8, 7: “carnes,” Plin. 32, 7, 24, § 69: “coma,” id. 16, 36, 64, § 158: “radix,” id. 25, 9, 64, § 111: “frondes,” Col. 5, 5, 19: “mihi Baias Musa supervacuas Antonius facit,” of no benefit, Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 3: “sepulcri honores,” id. C. 2, 20, 24: “metus,” Ov. P. 2, 7, 6: “cultus lupini,” Col. 2, 11, 5: “doctrina,” Quint. 2, 8, 8: “labor,” id. 3, 6, 65: “facta,” Suet. Tib. 52: “pugna,” Just. 3, 7, 4: “multa,” Plin. Pan. 50: “littera,” Quint. 12, 10, 3: dolium, App. M. 9, p. 219, 19: “quod monere supervacuum fuerat,” Quint. 1, 4, 22; 11, 2, 45; Col. Arb. 26, 9; Plin. 25, 10, 74, § 121: “qui dicit: tu occidisti, supervacuum habet postea dicere: ego non occidi,” Quint. 7, 2, 21: “quale sit describere supervacuum habeo,” Plin. 27, 12, 99, § 125: “diligentiam in supervacuis adfectare,” id. 17, 1, 1, § 9.— Adv. with prepp.: “res ad praecavendum vel ex supervacuo movit,” Liv. 2, 37, 8: “quid est iracundia in supervacuum tumultuante frigidius?” to no purpose, uselessly, Sen. Ira, 2, 11, 2; id. Cons. ad Marc. 1, 6; id. Ep. 70, 15: “adjectio vicini pro supervacuo habenda est,” Dig. 8, 4, 5.—Adv., superfluously, uselessly.
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