fossa | Fos-sa Drūsiāna (noun F) : fodio, i. e. fossa terra
* A ditch, trench, fosse (syn.: fovea, scrobs, fossio).
* Lit.
* In gen.: salso suffudit gurgite fossas,Lucr. 5, 482: fodere fossam,Liv. 3, 26, 9: ut unus aditus maximo aggere objecto fossa cingeretur vastissima,Cic. Rep. 2, 6: (oppidum) vallo et fossa circumdedi,id. Fam. 15, 4, 10: pomarium circummunire fossă praecipiti,Col. 5, 10, 1: circumdare moenia vallo atque fossā,Sall. J. 23, 1; and, in a different construction: circumdare fossam latam cubiculari lecto,Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 59: vallo fossaque munire,Caes. B. G. 2, 5 fin.; cf.: Rheni fossam immanissimis gentibus objicere et opponere,Cic. Pis. 33, 81: fossa et vallo aliquem septum tenere,id. Att. 9, 12, 3: fossam pedum XX. directis lateribus duxit,Caes. B. G. 7, 72, 1; so, fossam ducere,id. ib. 7, 73, 2: transversam fossam obducere,id. ib. 2, 8, 3: praeducere,id. B. C. 1, 27, 3: institutae fossae,id. ib. 3, 46, 5: ut flumen nullam in partem depressis fossis derivari posset,sunk deeper,Hirt. B. G. 8, 40, 3: deprimere fossam,id. ib. 8, 9, 3; cf. Tac. A. 15, 42; 1, 65; Ov. F. 4, 821: cruor in fossam confusus,Hor. S. 1, 8, 28.
* Trop., a boundary: alicui fossam determinare,Tert. adv. Haer. 10.
* A gutter, waterway, = colliciae, Verg. G. 1, 326; 1, 372.
* A furrow drawn to mark foundations, etc.: ipse humili designat moenia fossa,Verg. A. 7, 157; Ov. F. 4, 839; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, 32, § 143.
* A grave (late Lat.): FILETIVS VSQVE AT FOTSA (ad fossam),Inscr. Orell. 4794, v. fossor.
* In mal. part.: pudenda muliebria,Auct. Priap. 84; cf.: inter Socraticos notissima fossa cinaedos,Juv. 2, 10.
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