sŭpervăcŭē

sŭper-văcŭus, a, um, adj., 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.

Form sŭpervăcŭō, Plin. 11, 25, 30, § 87; Dig. 11, 7, 14 med.; 18, 1, 64.—

Form sŭpervăcŭē, Paul. Sent. 3, 5, 20; Tert. ad Mart. 1; Vulg. Psa. 24, 4; 34, 7.