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Besides these uses we find superesse with the meaning survive. For it is so employed in the book of letters of Marcus Cicero to Lucius Plancus, The tenth book of the Epist. ad Fam. contains numerous letters of Cicero to Plancus and of Plancus to Cicero. as well as in a letter of Marcus Asinius Pollio to Cicero, Ad Fam. x. 33.5. It should be Gaius Asinius Pollio. as follows: For I wish neither to fail the commonwealth nor to survive it (superesse), meaning that if the commonwealth should be destroyed and perish, he does not wish to live. Again in the Asinaria of Plautus that same force is still more evident in these, the first verses of that comedy: v. 16. As you would hope to have your only son Survive (superesse) you and be ever sound and hale.
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Thus we have to avoid, not merely an improper use of the word, but also the evil omene, in case an older man, acting as advocate for a youth, should say that he survives him.
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Who Papirius Praetextatus was; the reason for that surname; and the whole of the entertaining story about that same Papirius.
