FROSINONE, a town of Italy (anc. Frusino), and the capital of a province S3 m. E.S.E. by rail from Rome. Pop. (1931) town, 13,609; commune, 16,475. The place is picturesquely situ ated on a hill of 955 ft. above sea-level, but contains no buildings of interest. It was a Volscian, not a Hernican, town; a part of its territory was taken from it and sold about 306-303 B.C. by the Romans, later becoming an unimportant colony. It was situated a little way above the Via Latina.