postis (noun M) : (
* Abl. sing. posti, Ov. M. 5, 120), m. pono, a post, door-post.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.

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