Postis, huius postis, masc. ge. A post, & stando deducitur. Vir. A post: a beame.Aurati postes.Ouid. Fumosi. Sil. Crassi.Plaut. Humiles. Ouid.Ferrati Horat. Improbi, Vide IMPROBVS. Inuidendi postes. Horat. Postes so sumptuons as are to be enuied. Laureati postes. Quint. Nigri fuligine postes.Virg. Saligni. Claud. Resupinati. Claud. Superbi. Virgil. Altos disiecit postes. Sil. Excutere seram poste.Ouidius.To shake or breake open the locke.Frangere postes. Tibul.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
postis, is (abl. sing. posti, Ov. M. 5, 120), m. [pono], a post, door-post.I.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.—B.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.—II.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.