I.abl. sing. posti, Ov. M. 5, 120), m. pono, a post, door-post.
I. Lit. (class.), Ov. Am. 2, 1, 27: “caput legis in curiae poste figere,” Cic. Att. 3, 15, 6: armis Herculis ad postem fixis, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 5: “cur invidendis postibus moliar atrium,” id. C. 3, 1, 45: “tenere postem, said of him who consecrates a temple,” Liv. 2, 8; Cic. Dom. 46, 120.—Also of other edifices: “ambulationis postes nemo umquam tenuit in dedicando,” Cic. Dom. 46, 121.—
B. Poet., transf., a door (usually in plur.): “postes a cardine vellit Aeratos,” Verg. A. 2, 480: “aerati procumbunt cardine postes,” id. ib. 493; Val. Fl. 7, 322: “perunguere postis, ne quid mali medicamenti inferretur,” Plin. 28, 9, 37, § 142.—In sing.: “poste recluso,” Luc. 5, 531.—