I.future time, futurity, after - ages, succeeding generations, posterity (class.): “sperare videor, Scipionis et Laelii amicitiam notam posteritati fore,” Cic. Lael. 4, 15: “infinita,” id. Att. 12, 19, 1: “hujus rei ne posteritatem quidem omnium saeculorum, umquam immemorem esse,” id. Phil. 2, 22, 54: “sera,” a late posterity, Ov. P. 4, 8, 48: “aeterna,” id. H. 16, 374: “posteritati servire,” one's fame with posterity, Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 35: “posteritatis otio consulere,” id. Fam. 2, 18, 3: “habeat rationem posteritatis et periculi sui,” Caes. B. C. 1, 13: in posteritatem, in the distant future, hereafter: “quanta tempestas invidiae nobis ...in posteritatem impendeat,” Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 22; Just. 2, 3, 15: “sola posteritatis dilectio,” desire for offspring, Vulg. Tob. 8, 9.—
B. Transf., of animals, offspring (poet.), Juv. 8, 62.—
II. Trop., the last place, inferiority (eccl. Lat.): “principalem veritati, et posteritatem mendacitati deputare,” Tert. Praescr. 31.
