Fos-sa Drūsiāna

fossa, ae, 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.—

In partic.

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.—

Fos-sa Drūsiāna, v. Drusus.—

Trop., a boundary:

alicui fossam determinare,

Tert. adv. Haer. 10.

fossa, ae, 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.—

In partic.

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.—

Fos-sa Drūsiāna, v. Drusus.—

Trop., a boundary:

alicui fossam determinare,

Tert. adv. Haer. 10.