I. To dig before or in front of: “portas,” Verg. A. 11, 473 (id est ante portas fossas faciunt, Serv.). —
II. With respect to time, to dig or bury before: “scrobes,” to make pits beforehand, Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 79: “aurum,” to bury before, Ov. M. 13, 60.