Frigento
or FRICENTO (fretshen'to), a town of south Italy, province of Avellino, 17 miles E. N. E. of Avellino.
It has a fine cathedral, containing some excellent paintings. Its inhabitants subsist by the sale of sheep, hogs, and corn. Near it is a valley, supposed, apparently on good grounds, to be identical with the Amsancti valles of Virgil. In the lowest part is an oval pool in which water boils and spouts up, at irregular intervals, accompanied by strong sulphurous and mephitic exhalations. It was mephitic exhalations. It through this orifice that the Fury Alecto descended to Tartarus.
FRISIANS (friz'shăns), or FRISII (later called Frisones), an ancient Germanic people, who inhabited the extreme N. W. of Germany, between the mouths of the Rhine and Ems, and were subjected to the Roman power under Drusus. They were subdued by the Franks, and, on the division of the Carlovingian em- FRITH pire, their country was divided into language of the Frisians is intermediate East Frisian (East Friesland). The between the Anglo-Saxon and the Old language of the Frisians is intermediate between the Anglo-Saxon and the Old Norse. Our knowledge of the old Frisian is derived from certain collections of laws; as the "Asegabuch," composed about 1200; the "Brockmerbrief," in the about 1300, and some others. The modabout 1300, and some others. The modern Frisian is now spoken only in a few districts, and even in these only by the peasantry.