Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Subgrundarium

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. 

SUBGRUNDA'RIUM. A place where infants who died before they had cut their teeth were deposited; for it was not customary to burn them at that tender age. (Fulgent. s. v. p. 560. Compare Plin. H. N. vii. 15. Juv. xv. 139.) The illustration (Subgrundarium/1.1) is from a work on the antiquities of Cadiz, by Jo. Bapt. Suarez, which also accounts for the peculiarity of the term, by showing that the deposits were arranged, like swallows' nests, under a projecting roof or eaves (sub-grunda).

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  Subgrundarium/1.1