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 Issel, below the separation of the Waal. Suetonius, 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, Fossæ, as if more than one canal had been formed by Marius. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 4.—Strabo, bk. 4.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 5.
Fossæ Philistinæ, one of the mouths of the Po. Tacitus, Histories, bk. 3, ch. 9.
Franci, a people of Germany and Gaul, whose country was called Francia. Claudian.
Fraus, a divinity worshipped among the Romans, daughter of Orcus and Night. She presided over treachery, &c.
Frĕgella, a famous town of the Volsci, in Italy, on the Liris, destroyed for revolting from the Romans, Silius Italicus, bk. 5, li. 452.—Livy, bk. 8, ch. 22; bk. 27, ch. 10, &c.—Cicero, Letters to his Friends, bk. 13, ltr. 76.
Fregēnæ, a town of Etruria. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 5.
Frentāni, a people of Italy, near Apulia, who received their name from the river Frento, now Fortore, which runs through the eastern part of their country, and falls into the Adriatic opposite the islands of Diomede. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 11.—Livy, bk. 9, ch. 45.—Silius Italicus, bk. 8, li. 520.
Fretum (the sea), is sometimes applied by eminence to the Sicilian sea, or the straits of Messina. Cæsar, Civil War, bk. 1, ch. 29.—Florus, bk. 1, ch. 26.—Cicero, bk. 2, Letters to Atticus, ltr. 1.
Frigĭdus, a river of Tuscany.
Frisii, a people of Germany near the Rhine, now the Frisons of Friesland. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 1, ch. 60; Histories, bk. 4, chs. 15 & 72; Germania, ch. 36.