Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fodina

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FODI'NA (μέταλλον). A mine from which minerals, &c. are dug; each particular mine being marked by a distinguishing epithet; as, auri fodina, a gold mine; argenti fodina, a silver mine; which are also frequently written as one word. Ulp. Dig. 27. 9. 3. Vitruv. Plin.