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postis , is (
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.—
II. Trop. (poet.): belli ferratos postes portasque refregit, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 7, 622 (Ann. v. 271 Vahl.): “videtur Cernere res animus, sublatis postibus ipsis,” i. e. the eyes, Lucr. 3, 369.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 3.15.6
    • Cicero, On his House, 46.120
    • Cicero, On his House, 46.121
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 5.120
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.480
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 3.369
    • Lucan, Civil War, 5.531
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 2, 8
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 7.322
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