Fossa

, the straits of Bonifacio between Corsica and Sardinia, called also Taphros. Pliny , bk. 3 , ch. 6 .――Drusi, or Drusiana, a canal eight miles in length, opened by Drusus from the Rhine to the I el, below the separation of the Waal. Suet on i us , Claudius , ch. 1 .— Tacitus , Histories , bk. 5 , ch. 23 .――Mariana, a canal cut by Marius from the Rhone to Marseilles during the Cimbrian war, and now called Galejon . Sometimes the word is used in the plural, Fo æ , as if more than one canal had been formed by Marius. Pliny , bk. 3 , ch. 4 .— Strabo , bk. 4 .— Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 5 .