postĕrĭtas, ātis, f. [posterus],
I future time , futurity , after - ages , succeeding generations , posterity (class.): sperare videor, Scipionis et Laelii amicitiam notam posteritati fore, Cic. Lael. 4, 15: infinita, id. Att. 12, 19, 1: hujus rei ne posteritatem quidem omnium saeculorum, umquam immemorem esse, id. Phil. 2, 22, 54: sera, a late posterity , Ov. P. 4, 8, 48: aeterna, id. H. 16, 374: posteritati servire, one's fame with posterity , Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 35: posteritatis otio consulere, id. Fam. 2, 18, 3: habeat rationem posteritatis et periculi sui, Caes. B. C. 1, 13: in posteritatem, in the distant future , hereafter : quanta tempestas invidiae nobis ...in posteritatem impendeat, Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 22; Just. 2, 3, 15: sola posteritatis dilectio, desire for offspring , Vulg. Tob. 8, 9.—
B Transf., of animals, offspring (poet.), Juv. 8, 62.—
II Trop., the last place , inferiority (eccl. Lat.): principalem veritati, et posteritatem mendacitati deputare, Tert. Praescr. 31.