The frumentarii were an ancient Roman military and secret police organization used as an intelligence agency. They began their history as a courier service...

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...

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...

also served as political police. Although they were replaced by the frumentarii as police in the third century. As bodyguards, they were tasked with...

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...

the rule of Marcelo Caetano Taiwan Garrison Command Agentes in rebus Frumentarii Cohors Praetoria (SPQR) (Praetorian Guard) An ancient Roman institution...

the late 3rd century, when they replaced the earlier and much-detested frumentarii. The central imperial administration still needed couriers, and the agentes...

describe Hadrian's occasional recourse to a network of informers, the frumentarii, to discreetly investigate persons of high social standing, including...

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...

large number of such names: the negotiatores vestiarii for clothing, frumentarii for grain, salsari leguminari for the salted vegetable concession, and...