fossa — Lewis & Short
fossa, ae, f.fodio, i. e. fossa terra,
I a ditch, trench, fosse (syn.: fovea, scrobs, fossio).
I Lit.
A 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.—
B In partic.
1 A gutter, waterway, = colliciae, Verg. G. 1, 326; 1, 372.—
2 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.—
3 A grave (late Lat.):
FILETIVS VSQVE AT FOTSA (ad fossam),Inscr. Orell. 4794, v. fossor.—
4 In mal. part.:
pudenda muliebria,Auct. Priap. 84; cf.:
inter Socraticos notissima fossa cinaedos,Juv. 2, 10.—
5 Fos-sa Drūsiāna, v. Drusus.—*
II Trop., a boundary:
alicui fossam determinare,Tert. adv. Haer. 10.