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  • - (�). A combining form meaning posterior, back

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Examples

  • It's really about another associated quality we should all inculcate, reflected best in Horace's 65 - 8 B.C. longstanding, pre-Christian, advice: "Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero" -- "Seize the Day, trusting as little as possible in the future."

    G. Elijah Dann: A Note To The Pope: Thanks, But I Do Have Meaning In Life G. Elijah Dann 2010

  • Dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009

  • The PA proceeded to make a 1cm postero-inferior incision across the middle of the lesion.

    Archive 2009-09-01 1 Dinosaur 2009

  • The PA proceeded to make a 1cm postero-inferior incision across the middle of the lesion.

    Op Note 1 Dinosaur 2009

  • Dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Flavia 2009

  • Whether the Republican candidate knew it or not, he was alluding to a phrase in an ode by the Roman poet Horace: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero, “Seize the day, put no trust in the future.”

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • Whether the Republican candidate knew it or not, he was alluding to a phrase in an ode by the Roman poet Horace: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero, “Seize the day, put no trust in the future.”

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • After disinfection of the skin with chlorhexidine (+ cetrimide) (see table page 7), place the scissors between the presenting part and a line postero-lateral to the vulva, with the next contraction cut obliquely and posteriorly for approximately 4 cm. FIGURE

    Chapter 7 1989

  • Deinde Jugurtha postero die cum Aulo in colloquio verba facit: 'tametsi ipsum cum exercitu fame et ferro clausum tenet, [231] tamen se memorem humanarum rerum, si secum foedus faceret, incolumes omnes sub jugum missurum, [232] praeterea uti diebus decem

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • At rex postero die Asparem Jugurthae legatum appellat dicitque sibi per Dabarem ex Sulla cognitum, posse condicionibus bellum poni; [627] quamobrem regis sui sententiam exquireret.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

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