one who digs the ground
Latin word, found 13 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Georgics 2.264: et labefacta movens robustus iugera fossor.
Lucan, Civil War 7.402: Urbs nos una capit: vincto fossore coluntur
Vitruvius, On Architecture 7.8.1: … rca se rubrum pulverem. cum id foditur, ex plagis ferramentorum crebras emittit lacrimas argenti vivi, quae a fossoribus statim colliguntur.
All forms of fossor