FRI. 
He left commentaries upon the epiftles of Horaee, and the 
fatires of Perfius, and tranflations of ieee , Ariftophanes, 
Callimachus, and Helio dorus, More 
FRISCHLING, in Geography, a river of Pruffia, 
which rifes about 10 miles N. of Pruifch Eglau, and runs 
into the Frifch ee es miles S. W. of Brandenburg. 
FRI 
NIK, a town of Moravia, in the circle of Iglau ; 
four miles S.S,E. of Ii lau 
FRISONS, or Fristans, in Ancient Geograph oD ancient 
inhabitants of the poe which ftill bears t ely name 5 
between the Amafia | Or Em and d the Rhine, | 
But in the. decline of the Roman empire, their name and 
dominion extended from the Cimbric Cherfonefus to the 
Scheldt ; their limits being variable according to the circum- 
{tances of the times, ey were diftinguifhed into the Up- 
per and Lower Frifons; the for ing divided, as we 
rom the Lower Chau | < - Amafia, and from 
ermany, a confitated one of the feven 
sae — See Fri 
er to account for ae steal of their dominion, 
it fhould be recollected, that when the Roman power declined 
in Gaul and ae Barbarians encroached on its limits, the 
maritime people of Germania Secunda, whofe fidelity to i 
Romans had des them odious to thofe nations who 
habited the other fide of the _ re-united ‘for ce ae 
With this view they chofe a general, to whom gave th 
mmand of their couiiaer troops, but they gh wie 
their own laws and cuftoms, and the particular form of their 
government. The Frifons, being the sangie patios gave 
their own pee to this league. In pro of time they 
were joined by the Saxons, who patictpated of a honour, 
and the two anes were for fom e fynonymous. Ac- 
cordingly, under the appellation of Flos aay people of 
lefs note, but of appropriate denominations, were compre- 
— and this appellation was given to their whole coun- 
. The Frifons were eae and ingenuous ; but ne 
incurred by his attack on the 1. 
em eafy tribute, which conned merely of fom 
hides for the foldiers’ bucklers and machines of war. "This 
tribute they contentedly paid till Olennius, firft centurion 
of alegion under ‘Tiberius, having been appointed governor 
of Frilia, infifted that the hides of wild bulls fhould be 
models of thofe of the tribute. This w 
impracticable — as le wild be 
forefts were very larg their cattle — {mall. 
it impoffible to obey can new law, they firft parted with 
their herds, then with their lands, and at lat furrendered 
their wives and children to bondage, in payment of the 
rigorous exaction. When their remonftrances were fruitlefs, 
they had recourfe to'arms, and hung wae Lars the foldiers 
who levied the tribute. Olennius made efcape, and the 
Frifians purfued him; but by the whole foe of the sth 
ERI. 
an! the timite of the a, which 
See thema fenate and ma iftrates, and to keep them per- 
eCtly in fear, he built a fort in the middle of their country, 
and itrongly ¢ ‘garrifoned i it. In the reign of Nero, the Fri- 
ons took with them their w ives and children to fettle on the 
lands n he Rhine, omans had referved for 
their foldiers and left uncultivated. “The uilt huts,: 
fowed the grou and thefe lands as if they ‘ha 
ut they were made to — that 
the pearaen would fall Bist them, if they did not re« 
turn tot 
ome ;° 
the emperor, 
Frifons were cbliged to leave, 
ied an oe refufing to. 
and though they were treated — refpeét -b 
their Fequett was denied d. 
ebiaaee " “We 
relating to this people under the article FriesLanp, to whic 
ba 
co 
FRIST, aterm among Merchants for felling goods upor 
credit. 
FRIT, or Frrrr, inthe Glafs Manufaéture, is the mat- 
ter, or ingredie a bats glafs is to be made s when they 
have been calcined aked in a furnace. 
A falt drawn hoa the afhes of the plant Bali, or from 
2 
the "ST talians f ir “ill 
Frit, by the ancients, was called hammonitr sale or ammo« 
nitrum ” of. aupD, fand, and vwreory nitre which name 
it is defcribed by Pliny thus: . fine fand fon ie Volturnian 
fea, mixed with three times the quantity of nitre, and melted, 
makes a mafs called ammonitrum; which es bake, 
makes a pure glafi t. lib. xxxvi. 
Fr eri obferves, is only the calx Me pi mes ials 
which make glafs ; which though they might be melted, and 
glafs be made, withou aaa caleining them, yet it would 
take up much more tim his calcining, or making, of 
mix and incorporate the materials together, 
ran to evapor 1 the fuperfluous pas ve e frit, 
= is edly rae) ae turned into glaf 
Ther are three kinds of frits ; oe ‘fet, er. aye frit, 
or that “for cryftal metal ; made owithi falt of pulverine ad 
fand. 
The fecond, and ordinary frit, is made of the bare 
afhes of pulverine or barilla, without extracting the falt 
aaa them. This makes the ordinary white, or cryftal 
eeThe third is frit for green glaffes, made of common afhes, 
without any prepara: aon: - This laft frit will require ten or 
twelye hours bakin 
The us ia in on are to be finely powdered, wafhed 
and fearced; then equally mixed, and frequently ftirred 
together in the melting pot. For the reft, fee Guass, and 
CRYSTAL. 
FRITBURG. See Frisurcu. 
7 FRITH 
