Fossa

2 Fossa, æ, f. , avec un qualificatif désigne plusieurs canaux : Clodia Fossa, Plin. 3, 121, canal de Clodius [formant une des bouches du Pô] || Philistina Plin. 3, 121, canal philistin [autre bouche du Pô] || Drusiana Tac. Ann. 2, 8, canal de Drusus [joignant le Rhin à lʼOcéan] || Fossæ Marianæ Plin. 3, 34, canal de Marius [creusé pour lʼassainissement des bouches du Rhône] ; ville sur ce canal : Peut. [auj. Fos] || Neronis Plin. 14, 61, canal de Néron [entrepris inutilement pour faire communiquer la ville dʼOstie avec le golfe de Putéoles].

Fossa

or Fossae. A canal. (1) Cluilia or Cluiliae, a trench about five miles from Rome, said to have been the ditch with which the Alban king Cluilius protected his camp when he marched against Rome in the reign of Tullus Hostilius.

(2) Corbulōnis, a canal cut in the reign of Claudius, by Corbulo, between the Rhine and the Meuse (Tac. Ann. xi. 20).

(3) Drusiānae or Drusīnae, a canal which Drusus caused his soldiers to dig in B.C. 11, uniting the Rhine with the Yssel.

(4) Mariāna or Mariānae, a canal dug by command of Marius during his war with the Cimbri, in order to connect the Rhone with the Mediterranean.

(5) Xerxis. See Athos.