posture

posture
subs.
P. and V. σχῆμα, τό.
Way of standing: P. and V. στά̆σῐς, ἡ.
Way of sitting: V. ἕδρα, ἡ, θά̄κημα, τό.
Suppliant posture: V. ἕδρα προστρόπαιος (Aesch. Eum. 41).

posture
v. intrans.
P. σχηματίζεσθαι, Ar. σχημᾰτίζειν.

POSTURE

Attitude position (corporis) habitus; status. [Vid : also ATTITUDE].

Condition state conditio status. According to the posture of things pro re; pro re natā; prout res se habet or habebit; ut res se dabunt; si res postulabit (if circumstances shall demand it). Vid: POSITION.

posture:

1. stătus, ūs (strictly, in standing): an unbecoming p., s. indecorus, Quint. 1, 11, 16: to change one's p. frequently, crebro commutare status, Pl. Mil. 2, 2, 53: Cic.

2. hăbĭtus, ūs (in Cic. always of the permanent features of the body or mind): to imitate any one's movements, p. and gait, alicujus motum, h., incessum imitari, Suet. Cl. 4: Sen.

3. gestus, ūs: v. GESTURE. P. in sitting may be expr. by sessio, Cic. Off. 1, 35, 129 (status, incessus, sessio, accubitio ... teneant illud decorum): or a verb may be used: he painted Lucius in a sitting p., Lucium sedentem pinxit, Plin.: most of the deities of the Egyptians are represented in a sitting p., *pleraeque Aegyptiorum deorum effigies sedentes [in soliis] ponuntur. See also GAIT. For posture of affairs, v. POSITION, STATE.