Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
citrā adv. and
praep. citer.
I. I. Adv, on this side, on the hither side: (dextera) nec citra mota nec ultra, neither this way nor that, O.—On this side, nearer: id a capite arcessere: saepe etiam citra licet, not so far: paucis citra milibus, L.— Fig.: citra quam debuit, less than, O.—
II. II. Praep. with acc, on this side of: esse citra Rhenum, Cs.: citra Leucadem stadia CXX: citra flumen intercepti, L.: natus mare citra, H.: exercitum citra <*>umen educere.—Before, short of: nec a postremā syllabā citra tertiam, before the third syllable.— Fig., of time, before, within: citra Troiana tempora, O.—Short of, inferior to, within, less than: Nec virtus citra genus est, unworthy of the family, O.: citra necem constitit ira, O.: citra fidem, i. e. reason for distrust, Ta.: fines, Quos ultra citraque, etc., H. — Without, aside, from, except: citra speciem, not ornamental, Ta.: citra Caledoniam (Britannia), Ta.