I. Adv.
A. 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. —
B. Of time, afterwards, after: nunc et post semper, old poet in Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 115.—
2. 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.—
II. Prep. with acc., behind.
A. 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.—
2. 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.—
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.—
