Thou shalt know afterwarde. Longo post tempore venit. He came a great while after. Post viderimus de Capitone, si, &c Cic. Cum Aequis pòst aliquantò pugnatum est. Li. They fought with the Aequians somewhat after that time. Multis pòst annis pecunia recuperata est Cic. Nunc primum fac istæc vt lauet: pòst deinde. Quod iussi quantum imperani, Date. Terent. Pòst demum huc cras adducam, ad lenam. Pla. Then afterwarde I will bring hir hither. Paucis diebus post Tarenti emortuus est. Plautus. He dyed within few daies after at Trent. Paucis post diebus qum Luca decesserat. Cic. Hora post, Antonium Gabinium nescio quÊ, &c condemnarunt. Cic. Within an houre after they condemned, &c. Pòst haud multo ad me venit. Plautus. Not long after hee came to me. Non multò pòst commissa. Cic. Non ita muitò, pòst, Vide NON aduerbium. Pòst paulò tamen internuntijs vltrò citróque missis, quæ, &c. Cæsar. Tantò pòst cur potius qum continuò queri maluit? Cicer. Why would he rather camplaine so long after, than immediatly.

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.—

C. Transf., besides, except: post sidera caeli sola Jovem Semele vidit, Calp. Ecl. 10, 22.