The New International Encyclopædia/Posthumus

POSTHUMUS. The husband of Imogen, in Shakespeare's Cymbeline, banished by the King, who intended his daughter for his step-son Cloten. In Italy Posthumus made a wager with Iachimo on Imogen's fidelity, and, deceived by a trick, ordered Pisanio to murder her. Finally Iachimo confessed, and Posthumus was pardoned.