following (adj.) Copy link Outline 1. sĕquens, insĕquens2. sĕcūtus, insĕcūtus (rare; and only when following = which followed)3. proxĭmus (next in order, either before or after)4. postĕrus5. sĕcundus (second6. contĭnuus (f. without break • following (adj.): 1. sĕquens, insĕquens: on the f. day, sequenti die, Plin.: the meeting of words at the end of a sentence with the first f. ones, extremorum verborum cum insequentibus primis concursus, Cic. Or. 44, 150: the f. year, insequens annus, Liv. 2, 18: in the f. night, nocte insequenti, Hirt. 2. sĕcūtus, insĕcūtus (rare; and only when following = which followed): in the months which f.'d, mensibus insecutis, Plin. 7, 11, 9. 3. proxĭmus (next in order, either before or after): (he said that) he should break up his encampment on the f. night, (dixit) se p. nocte castra moturum, Caes. B. G. 1, 40, fin.: at the beginning of the f. summer, initâ p. aestate, Caes.: in the f. three years, p. triennio, Nep. Han. 3: v. next. 4. postĕrus: to put off to the f. day, in p. diem differre, Cic. Deiot. 7, 21: in the f. year, p. anno, Cic.: on the f. day, p. die, Caes.: Cic. Hence, postrīdie, adv.: he called upon me the f. day in the morning, postridie me mane convenit, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 27, init.: Caes.: more precisely postridie ejus diei., Caes. B. G. 4, 13: postridie is also used with acc., as on the day f. the Kalends, p. Kalendas, Liv. 6, 1, extr.: Cic. 5. sĕcundus (second: rare in this sense): on the f. day, s. lumine, Enn. ap. Cic. Att. 7, 26. 6. contĭnuus (f. without break: only poet.): on the f. day, continua die, Ov. Fast. 5, 734: v. successive. (N.B.--Sometimes hic may be used of words which follow: as, he spoke after the f. manner, in hunc modum locutus: v. to follow [Phr.]: but the reference must be obvious, as hic may also mean the above-mentioned.)