Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Rom, antiq., a crypt or cellar; an underground treasury.
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Christ to the fall of the Empire, may be counted not by thousands, but by millions of specimens, I believe that the bed of the Tiber must have been used as a _favissa_.
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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