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|lshtext=<b>post</b>: (form poste, Enn. An. 235; Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 131; id. Stich. 2, 2, 56), adv. and prep. [[root]] pas-; Sanscr. pac-kas, [[behind]]; Gr. [[πύματος]] (for πόσματος); Lat. [[pone]], postremus.<br /><b>I</b> Adv.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Of [[place]], [[behind]], [[back]], [[backwards]] ([[class]].): [[ante]] aut [[post]], Liv. 22, 5, 8: servi, qui [[post]] erant, Cic. Mil. 10, 29: lacertis priora genua [[post]] curvantur, [[backwards]], Plin. 11, 45, 102, § 249: sed ubi [[periculum]] advenit, [[invidia]] [[atque]] [[superbia]] [[post]] fuere, remained [[behind]], were forgotten, Sall. C. 23, 7: [[post]] [[minor]] est, i.e. shorter [[when]] [[seen]] from [[behind]], Juv. 6, 504. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Of [[time]], [[afterwards]], [[after]]: [[nunc]] et [[post]] [[semper]], old [[poet]] in Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 115.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ante ... [[post]], Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 47 Vahl.): [[post]] duobus mensibus, Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 33: [[initio]] ... [[post]] [[autem]], Cic. Fam. 7, 5; id. Dom. 55, 140; Sall. J. 55, 8: duxi probum, erravi, [[post]] cognovi, Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 24, 38 (Trag. v. 160 Vahl.): multis [[post]] annis, [[many]] years [[after]], Cic. Fl. 23, 56: paucis diebus [[post]], Plaut. Men. prol. 36: multis annis [[post]], id. ib. 5, 9, 72: biennio [[post]], Cic. Brut. 91, 316: [[quam]] te [[post]] multis [[tueor]] tempestatibus? [[after]] [[how]] [[long]] a [[time]]? Pac. ap. Non. 414, 3: [[aliquanto]] [[post]], [[some]] [[time]] [[after]], [[shortly]] [[after]], Cic. Caecin. 4, 11: [[post]] [[aliquanto]], id. Or. 30, 107: [[paulo]] [[post]] [[valens]], a [[little]] [[later]], id. Fam. 16, 5, 2: [[post]] [[paulo]], [[soon]] [[after]], Caes. B. C. 1, 29: [[multo]] [[post]] [[quam]], [[long]] [[after]], Cic. Att. 12, 49; cf. Liv. 24, 3, 14 Weissenb.: [[post]] tanto, so [[long]] [[after]], Verg. G. 3, 476: [[post]] non [[multo]], not [[long]] [[afterwards]], Nep. Paus. 3, 1: [[neque]] ita [[multo]], and not [[very]] [[long]] [[afterwards]], id. Cim. 3, 4.—With [[inde]], [[deinde]], and [[afterwards]], and [[then]]: et [[post]] [[inde]], Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 59 Müll. (Ann. v. 11 Vahl.): [[inde]] [[pedes]] et crura mori, [[post]] [[inde]] per [[artus]], etc., Lucr. 3, 529: [[primum]] ... [[post]] [[deinde]], Ter. And. 3, 2, 3; Nep. Eum. 5, 5.—<br /><b>II</b> Prep. [[with]] acc., [[behind]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Of [[place]]: [[post]] me erat [[Aegina]], [[ante]] [[Megara]], Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 4; Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 52: [[post]] nostra [[castra]], Caes. B. G. 2, 9: [[post]] [[tergum]], id. ib. 7, 88: [[post]] carecta, Verg. E. 3, 20: [[post]] montem se occultare, Caes. B. G. 7, 83: [[post]] se alligare, Plin. 26, 9, 58, § 91: [[post]] equitem sedet atra [[cura]], Hor. C. 3, 1, 40.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Trop., [[beneath]], [[inferior]] to, [[less]] [[important]] [[than]]: [[neque]] erat [[Lydia]] [[post]] Chloen, Hor. C. 3, 9, 6: [[tantus]] erat ambitionis [[furor]], ut [[nemo]] [[tibi]] [[post]] te videatur, si [[aliquis]] [[ante]] te fuerit, Sen. Ep. 104, 9: ut sua necessaria [[post]] illius honorem haberent, Sall. J. 73, 6; Plin. 33, 2, 8, § 34.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Of [[time]], [[after]], [[since]]: [[aliquot]] [[post]] menses, Cic. Rosc. Am. 44, 128: maxima [[post]] hominum memoriam [[classis]], [[since]] the [[memory]] of [[man]], Nep. Them. 5, 3: [[post]] M. Brutum proconsulem, [[after]] the [[proconsulate]], Cic. Phil. 2, 38, 97.—So [[with]] [[part]]. constr.: [[post]] urbem conditam, [[since]] the [[city]] [[was]] founded, Cic. Cat. 4, 7, 14: [[post]] homines natos, id. Brut. 62, 224; id. Mil. 26, 69: sexennio [[post]] Veios captos, [[after]] the [[taking]] of [[Veii]], id. Div. 1, 44, 100 al. —Put [[after]] the [[noun]]: hunc [[post]], Cic. Tusc. 2, 6, 15.—With [[quam]]: decessit [[post]] annum [[quartum]] [[quam]] [[expulsus]] fuerat, Nep. Arist. 3, 3; cf.: [[post]] annum quintum, quo [[expulsus]] erat, id. Cim. 3, 3: [[post]] id, [[post]] [[illa]], [[after]] this, [[after]] [[that]], [[afterwards]]: [[post]] id cum [[lassus]] fueris, Plaut. Cas. 1, 42: qui foret [[post]] [[illa]] [[natus]], Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 21, 42 (Trag. v. 67 Vahl.): eum [[numquam]] [[post]] [[illa]] vidi, Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 43: [[post]] [[illa]], Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 33: [[post]] haec [[deinde]], [[then]] [[after]] this, and [[next]], Col. 3, 4: [[post]] Hectora, Ov. M. 12, 607.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> Transf., [[besides]], [[except]]: [[post]] sidera caeli sola Jovem [[Semele]] vidit, Calp. Ecl. 10, 22.