CELLARS, in modern building, are the lowest rooms
in a house, the ceilings of which usually lie level with
the surface of the ground on which the house is built;
or they are situated under the pavement before the
house, especially in streets and squares.
Cellars, and other places vaulted under ground, were
called by the Greeks hypogæa: the Italians still call
them fundi dell' case.