Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Postsignani

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

POSTSIGNA'NI. The soldiers drawn up in the second and third lines of a battle array; that is, behind the front ranks in which the standards (signa) were placed. Frontin. Strat. ii. 3. 17. Ammian. xxiv. 6.