Inscription about a frumentarius from Legio VII Gemina.
The frumentarii were an ancient Roman military and secret police organization used as an intelligence agency. They began their history as a courier service and developed into an imperial spying agency. Their organization would also carry out assassinations. The frumentarii were headquartered in the Castra Peregrina and were run by the princeps peregrinorum.[1] They were disbanded under the reign of Diocletian due to their poor reputation amongst the populace.
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...
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...
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...
describe Hadrian's occasional recourse to a network of informers, the frumentarii, to discreetly investigate persons of high social standing, including...
the late 3rd century, when they replaced the earlier and much-detested frumentarii. The central imperial administration still needed couriers, and the agentes...
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...
imperial government did develop an internal security unit called the frumentarii. In military jargon, this term, literally meaning "grain-collectors"...
Bureau Agentes in rebus (4th–7th century) Areani Bureau of Barbarians Frumentarii Praetorian Guard (27 BC–312 AD) Secția a-II-a (Section II) (1859–1908)...
Cursus publicus – courier service of the Roman and Byzantine Empires Frumentarii – Roman officials, originally collectors of wheat, later increasingly...
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