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

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