- The
frumentarii were an
ancient Roman military and
secret police organization used as an
intelligence agency. They
began their history as a
courier service...
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describe Hadrian's
occasional recourse to a
network of informers, the
frumentarii, to
discreetly investigate persons of high
social standing, including...
- Navicella) and
provides further evidence of the
spread of the barracks'
frumentarii across the provinces. It has been
claimed by some authors, as the name...
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secret service of the Empire, made up of
peregrine milites such as the
frumentarii and the speculatores. The
soldiers of the legions, who
stationed in the...
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various sizes who were
typically allowed to
settle within the empire.
Frumentarii –
Officials of the
Roman Empire during the 2nd and 3rd era.
Often used...
- "Tanatos
insula Oceani freto Gallico, a
Brittania aestuario tenui separata,
frumentariis campis et
gleba uberi.
Dicta autem Tanatos a
morte serpentum, quos dum...
- harvests, and
manpower by the
predatory agents of the late
Roman state (see
frumentarii, publicani). The
Panegyric of Maximian,
dating to 289 AD and attributed...
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large number of such names: the
negotiatores vestiarii for clothing,
frumentarii for grain,
salsari leguminari for the
salted vegetable concession, and...
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imperial government did
develop an
internal security unit
called the
frumentarii. In
military jargon, this term,
literally meaning "grain-collectors"...
- the late 3rd century, when they
replaced the
earlier and much-detested
frumentarii. The
central imperial administration still needed couriers, and the agentes...
