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I also used to raise the question whether the ancients used superesse in the sense of to be left and be lacking for the completion of an act. For to express that idea Sallust says, not superesse, but superare. These are his words in the Jugurtha: lxx. 2. This man was in the habit of exercising a command independently of the king, and of attending to all business which had been left undone (superaverant) by Jugurtha when he was weary or engaged in more important affairs. But we find in the third book of Ennius' Annals: v. 158, Vahlen2. Then he declares one task's left over (super esse) for him, that is, is left and remains undone; but there superesse must be divided and read as if it were not one part of speech, but two, as in fact it is. Cicero, however, in his second Oration against Antony Phil. ii. 71, cum praescrtim belli pars tanta restaret. expresses what is left by restare, not by superesse.
