FUTURE, FUTURITY Copy link • FUTURE, FUTURITYs. tempus futurum, or posterum, or reliquum (the future, following time): vetustas (long duration of time; Vid: Ochsn., Cic., Ecl., p. 76, sq.): futura, orum: res futurae (future things, or things to come). In future, postero tempore: for the future, in posterum; posthac; in posteritatem; in reliquum tempus: to see into the future, quod futurum est scire; animo prospicere futura; quae futura sunt prospicere or providere; in posterum prospicere: not to think of the future, non consulere in longitudinem: to consider the present with the future, rebus praesentibus adjungere atque annectere futuras: to enjoy the present without troubling one’s self about the future, praesentibus frui nec in longius consultare. THE FUTURE (tense). tempus futurum (grammatically). The future-perfect *futurum exactum (grammatical technical term).