Word Nerd: "post"
Context and Language Videos
Act 5,
Scene 1
Lines 15-21
Romeo
Balthasar
Video Transcript:
SARAH: Post derives from the latin word, posta, a stop or station along a travel route.
RALPH: By Shakespeare's time it had come to mean more specifically the stations, men, carriages, and horses used to carry messages.
SARAH: Only later did post come to refer to the messages themselves, and thus the post office was the location for handling them.
RALPH: When Balthasar says he took post, he means that he came rapidly by horse with news.