postĕrĭtas (noun F) : posterus
* Future time, futurity, after - ages, succeeding generations, posterity (class.): sperare videor, Scipionis et Laelii amicitiam notam posteritati fore,Cic. Lael. 4, 15: infinita,id. Att. 12, 19, 1: hujus rei ne posteritatem quidem omnium saeculorum, umquam immemorem esse,id. Phil. 2, 22, 54: sera,a late posterity,Ov. P. 4, 8, 48: aeterna,id. H. 16, 374: posteritati servire,one's fame with posterity,Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 35: posteritatis otio consulere,id. Fam. 2, 18, 3: habeat rationem posteritatis et periculi sui,Caes. B. C. 1, 13: in posteritatem, in the distant future, hereafter: quanta tempestas invidiae nobis ...in posteritatem impendeat,Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 22; Just. 2, 3, 15: sola posteritatis dilectio,desire for offspring,Vulg. Tob. 8, 9.
* Transf., of animals, offspring (poet.), Juv. 8, 62.
* Trop., the last place, inferiority (eccl. Lat.): principalem veritati, et posteritatem mendacitati deputare,Tert. Praescr. 31.

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