place
Frusino
also: Frusinati, the Frusinate, fundo Frusinati
A town of the Hernici in Latium on the Via Latina; Cicero owned a farm (the Frusinate estate) in its territory, whose buy-back and solvency he worries over from Brundisium (Att. 11.4, 11.13).
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 11.4 §1 the property at Frusino
Cicero's farm at Frusino in the Volscian hills of Latium. With his finances in ruin, retaining and enjoying this modest estate would be a welcome consolation.
- Ad Atticum 11.13 §4 About buying back the farm at Frusino
Cicero owned an estate near Frusinum in Latium and hoped to recover or repurchase it. Even amid ruin he kept up his property dealings, anxious for some secure income.