I.a digging under, undermining, Vulg. Jer. 51, 58.—Transf., in plur., concr., mines, Vitr. 1, 5, 5 (dub.): “cum ipsum solum subfossionibus tremeret,” Sen. Ep. 49, 8.
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suffossĭo (subf- ), ōnis, f. suffodio,