Citations:defossion


 * The punishment of being buried alive?






 * 1830, William Martin Leake, Travels in the Morea: With a Map and Plans, volume 3, page 302:
 * Dr Chandler, indeed, thought he had actually traced the beginning of Nero's canal near Lechaeum, where are some appearances of an excavation; but Nero himself could hardly have been so absurd as to attempt an excavation of seven miles, when one half of that distance would have attained his object much better. It is evident, from what has already been said as to the nature of the ground, that the defossion of the Isthmus would be a work sufficiently difficult in the narrowest part. To fortify it is a much easier operation, and accordingly we still trace, as I have already remarked, the remains of a Hellenic wall