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#186 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

afterwards

Examples

dicam.

I shall speak about this matter afterwards.

.

He came a little later.

, .

First he did these things, afterwards those.

?

What of it?

.

After that I never saw him again.

is post plus the old ablative , "after that thing", and it is an adverb only. That is the distinction to hold: post is both a preposition with the ACCUSATIVE (post , after the war) and an adverb, while can never take a noun after it, and postquam is a conjunction joining a finite clause.

In narrative it is the standard later beat of a sequence: ... ... ... postremo. It takes a measure of time in the ablative in front of it, , "a little afterwards", , "much later". The clipped rhetorical ? is Latin for "so what?".

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This word is part of lesson 4.