adverb
postmodo
postmodo (not comparable)
Meaning
- not comparableafterwards
- not comparablepresently, shortly
post-mŏdo (also separately, post mŏdo), adv.,
I. afterwards, presently, shortly (mostly poet., and in Livy for postea; not in Plaut., Cic., Cæs., or Quint.): tamen postmodo necesse est doleant, Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 1:
sentiet illa tuas postmodo capta manus, Prop. 2, 10 (3, 1), 18; * Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 11 (Fleck.); Ov. Am. 1, 14, 56; id. A. A. 1, 486: neglegis immeritis nocituram Postmodo te natis fraudem committere? Hor. C. 1, 28, 31: publicum in praesentiā dedecus, postmodo periculum, Liv. 2, 43, 8; 2, 24, 5; 3, 41, 5; 4, 7, 6; Col. 1, 8, 4 al.; cf. postmodum.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
post-modo or post modo adv.,
afterwards, after a while, a little later: Me esse . . . post modo rescisces, T.: inmeritis nocitura Postmodo te natis fraus, H.: publicum in praesentiā dedecus, postmodo periculum, L.