post praep. with acc. 1 post.

—Of place, behind: post urbem in viā Pompeiā: post tergum, Cs.: post montem se occultare, Cs.: post equitem sedet atra cura, H.

—Of time, after, since: post factam iniuriam, T.: aliquot post mensīs, some months later: maxima post hominum memoriam classis, since the memory of man, N.: post M. Brutum proconsulem, after the proconsulate: post urbem conditam, since the foundation of Rome: post homines natos: alii post me, future poets, V.: post illa, afterwards, T.: post Hectora, O.: hunc post: decessit post annum quartum quam expulsus erat, N.

—Fig., after, beneath, inferior to, less important than, next to: post hunc Apollinem (colunt), Cs.: neque erat Lydia post Chloen, H.: sua necessaria post illius honorem ducere, S.