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FROSINONE (anc. Frusino)

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FROSINONE (anc. Frusino) , a See also:town of See also:Italy in the See also:province of See also:Rome, from which it is 53 M. E.S.E. by See also:rail. Pop. (1901) town, 9530; See also:commune, 11,029. The See also:place is picturesquely situated on a See also:hill of 955 ft. above See also:sea-level, but contains no buildings of See also:interest. Of the See also:ancient See also:city walls a small fragment alone is preserved, and no other traces of antiquity are visible, not even of the See also:amphitheatre which it once possessed, for which a See also:ticket (tessera) has been found (Th. See also:Mommsen in Ber. d. Sachsischen Gesellschaft d. Wissenschaften, 1849, 286). It was a Volscian, not a Hernican, town; a See also:part of its territory was taken from it about 306–303 B.C. by the See also:Romans and sold. The town then became a praefectura, probably with the See also:civil as sine suffragio, and later a See also:colony, but we hear nothing important of it.

It was situated just above the Via See also:

Latina. (T.

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