Afterward: after: after that: as soone as: since that. vt. Postquã audiui. Pla. After that I heard it. postquã ante ostium Me audiuit stare, approperat. Terent. Postquam, pro eo quod barbari dicunt Depostquã. Plaut. Huic homini nescio quid est mali, mala obiectÛ manu. Postqum me abijt. As soone as he departed from me. -biÊnio Postquã hinc in Ephesum abij. Plaut. Two yeares after that I went hence to Ephesus. Vndecimo die postquam te discesseram, hoc literulatum exaraui. Cic. The xi. day after I departed from you. Biennium iam factum est postquam abij domo. Plaut. It is now two yeares since that I went from home. Hic annus sextus est postquã rei huic operam damus. Plau. It is sice yeares since we. &c. Postquam ad te venit, mensis hic agitur iam septimus. Ter. This is now the vii. moneth fince that he came to you. Postquam pro Quoniam, apud Terentium, interprete Donato. For so much as. Postquam poeta sensit scripturam suam. Ab iniquis obseruari, For somuch as, or bycause that the Poet perceyued. &c.

I. After that, after, as soon as, when (class., but rare in Cic., who commonly writes postea quam; v. postea); constr. usually with histor. pres., or perf. or imperf. indic., or subj.; rarely with pluperf. (v. Zumpt, 507, b; cf. Weissenb. ad Liv. 22, 1, 1; Krebs, Antibarb. p. 889): abeo ab illis, postquam video, me sic ludificarier, Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 27; id. Most. 3, 3, 22; Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 28: postquam res eorum satis prospera videbatur, Sall. C. 6, 3; cf. id. J. 13, 5 al.: eo postquam Caesar pervenit, obsides, arma poposcit, Caes. B. G. 1, 27: post quam armis disceptari coeptum est de jure publico, nihil esse actum cum dignitate, Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 3: postquam id difficilius visum est neque facultas perficiendi dabatur, transierunt, etc., Caes. B. C. 3, 60, 5: postquam divitiae honori esse coepere, et eas gloria sequebatur, Sall. C. 12, 1; cf. id. J. 70, 5: undecimo die postquam a te discesseram, Cic. Att. 12, 1, 1: quod post accidisset, quam dedissem ad te liberto litteras, id. ib. 6, 3, 1: quartum post annum, quam redierat, Nep. Dion, 10, 3.—With post: postquam comedit rem, post rationem putat, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 15.—

II. With an accessory idea of cause, since, because, inasmuch as (rare and mostly poet.): nunc ego illam me velim convenire, postquam inanis sum, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 2; id. Most. 3, 3, 22: postquam poëta sensit, scripturam suam Ab iniquis observari, Ter. Ad. prol. 1 (postquam pro quoniam, Don.): postquam suas terras sedem belli esse viderent, verterunt, etc. (= cum), Liv. 22, 1, 1: sed periit, postquam cerdonibus esse timendus Coeperat; hoc nocuit, etc., Juv. 4, 153; Tac. A. 1, 68.