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 916 FRENTANL oocapied the site of TermoUj is dnired only from the same apocryphal soarce ; and, even were the in- scription itself aathentic, the Interamna there meant is probably the well-known town of the PraetntiL ^Mnrat. Inter, p. 1050, no. 7 ; Mommsen, L c.) The only inland town of importance among the Frentani was Anxanum, now Lancianof hnt^ besides this, Pliny mentions, in the interior of the oonntiy, the V Carentini snpemates et infemates," and the *'La- nuenses ;** both of which peoples are otherwise un- known, and the site of their towns cannot be fixed with any approach to certainty. On the ether hand, the Tabnla gives the name of a place called Paixa- NUM, of which no other mention occurs; but the site of which, according to Bomanelli, is marked by exten- sive ruins at a place called Monte di PaUano, about 3 miles S.W. of AUstCL The previous station given by the same authority is called " Annum ;" a name probably corrupt, but the true reading for which is unknown. (Tab, PeiU, Geogr. Bav. iv. 31.) U8CX>snTM, a place given in the Itinerary of AntcKii- nus, which reckons it 15 miles from Histoninm, on the road into Apulia (/(m. Ani. p. 314), is fixed by this distance at a spot near the right bank of the little river Smarca, about 5 miles S.W. of TermcU, but in the territory of GugUonitiy where considerable remains of an ancient town are said to exist. (Bo- manelli, vol. iiL p. 24.) There is considerable obscurity in regard to the Boman roads through the territory of the FrentanL The name of the ** Via Trajana Frentana ** rests only on the authority of a dubious inscription ; nor is there any better evidence for the £Bict that the constnustion of the high road through this district was really owing to that emperor. But it is certain that an ancient road traversed the territory of the Frentani, in its whole length firom Atemum to Larinum, keeping for the most part near the sea-ooast, but diverging for the purpose of visiting Anxannm. The stations along it are thus given in the Ittnerary of Antoninus: — Ostia Atemi. mlp. Angelum (Angulus) - x. Ortona - - - xL Anxano ... ziii. Histonios ... xxv. Usoosio - •> - XV. Arenio (Larinum ?) - xiv. Of these, AnguIns is certainly misplaced, and should have been inserted between Hadria and the Atemus. The distance from the mouths of the Atemus at Petcara to Octona is considerably understated, and that from Ortona to Anxannm as much overrated ; but still the line of the road may be tolerably well made out, and an ancient Boman bridge, over the Sangro between Landano and // Fosto, supplies a fixed point in oonfirmatlon. The road given in the Tabula, on the contrary, strikes inland, from the mouth of the Atemus to Teate, and thence to Ortona, and again between Anxannm and Sstonium makes a bend inland by Annnmand Pallanum. The distances given are very confused, and in many instances pro- bably coimpt They stand thus: — Ostia Atemt m.p. Teano Marracino " xvi. Ortona - - - xL Anx^na - - • iii. Annum ... iiiL Pallanum - • xii. Istonium Larinum. XXUL FRISIL There exist copper coins with the Osean legenid^ " Frentrei,** which may probably be referred to the Frentani rather than to the town of Ferentam in Apulia, to which they have been asagned by some writers. Others are c^ opinion that they indicate the existence of a city of the name of Frmtmm as the capital of the Frentani, which is supposed to be the one referred to by Livy (ix. 16) where be says — ^'Frentanos vicit urbanqae iptam — in deditionem aocepit," — ^without naming the city ; but this inference is, to say the least, very dubious. (Friedllnder, Osldsche Munzen^ p. 42 ; Millingen, NmnUmaHqm de r/ialie, p. 180.) [E. H. B.] FBENTO (Fortore a river of Apulia, which rises in the Apennines near Baaditx^ and has a course of near 50 miles from thence to the AdiiaticL In the lower part <^ its conne it farmed the boun- dary between the territory of Larinum and that of Teanum in Apnlia, and, consequently, fonned the northern limit of Apnlia if Larinum was not in- cluded in that country. Pliny tells us it had a port at its mouth, whence he terms it ** fiumen por- tuosum Frento:" some remains of this are still visible on its right bank, at a place called Tlorre di FortoTB. About 10 miles from its mouth, it was crossed by an ancient bridge constructed oo a seals of great magnificence, and stUl known as the Pcmte di CMtatej fimn the ruins of Teanum, now known as Citntatej which are situated at a short distance from it. It was traversed by the high road leadii^ from Larinum to Teanum. (PliiL iiL II. a. 16; Tab. Peut; Bomanelli, vdL iii. p. 11.) [E.1LB.] fb£:tum gadita'num, herculeum, TABTESSIUM, &c. [Gaditanum Frbtum.] FBETUM GALLICUM, is a name which Sofimu (c25, ed. Steph.) gives to the straits which sepamte Gallia and Britannia. Tadtus {AffHe. c 40) eaUs it " Fretum Oeeani." It is the iropB/ibs Bpfranxis of Strabo (p. 128). Thns, in ancient times, both the countries which it separates gave this nairoiw sea a name ; and it has no general name, for the English call it the Straits of Bover, and the Frendi sometimes Pas de Calais. [G. L.] ntlGIDUS FLUVIUS^ a river of VeDetJa, in the country of the Cami, placed by the Itineraries oa the road from Aquileia to Aenkona across the Julian Alps. (rtm. AnL p. 128 ; Tab. PeuL) It can be no other than the stream now called the W^)paek (in Italian, Vipad)^ which falls into the Jsomam (Sontius), near Gonzia, It was on the hanks of Uiis river that the usurper Eugenins was defeated and skin by Theodosius, a.d. 394. Claudian, in alluding to this victory, notices the extreme coIdneaB of the waters from wluch the river derived its name. (Ckudian. de IIL Cons. Honor. 99 ; Zosim, iv. 58 ; Hi$L MwxO. xii. p. 530.) [E. H. &] FRISLABaNES, are placed by Plmy (iv. 17) in North Gallia, between the Sunici and Betasii [Be- TAsn]. We cannot tell exactly where to fix them, unless they were near the Betasii ; nor is it certain that the name is right, for the Frisii bekiQg to another pkoe. The ''Frisaei" appear on an in- scription in Grater, but this is a di£brent nameu Forbiger, who refisrs to his authorities, states that Frisiabones is only another way of writiqg the name Frisaevones (Grater, p. 522, 7, &c.). (Forbiger, Handbuch, fc. voL iu. p. 254 ; Ukert, GaUie», p. 271.) [GL.] FRISII (Frisrnies, Paul. Diac vL 37 ; Frigones, Geoigr. Bav. iv. 23; and Frisei, Frisaei, or Frisae- Yonesi in inscriptioiis; ^pko'ioc, PtoL ii. 11. § 11;