FRU 
ough by nature iad guts 3 are fo defended vi their 
that people v haacints fuffer by.things o 
yet ‘if we confider nee arious circumyv are s of 
the guts, ag valves and cells, aa at the fam e con- 
fider the hair of the {kins of animals we feed on, the wool 
nd fruits, 
For 
many peop} ther been inftances even ‘of the 
feeds o lan and kernels of nuts, collected into 
a lump in the gut 
and caufing violent diforders, which 
could never be pane till they were carried off. Phil. ‘Tranf. 
0. 282. p. 1282. 
ey a place for the laying up and keeping of 
fruit. See RY 
e fuiteny “hould be inacceffible to any thing of moif- 
ture, or even 
FRUITFULNESS, the quality of bearing plenty of 
fruit, called alfo fertility, or fecundit 
FRUMENTACEOUS Pian are thofe which pro- 
duce geniculated or knotted ftalks, with reed-like leaves; 
and whofe — growing in {pik es or juba, is uféfulto make 
pultege, orb 
T ee is csemed from. frumentum, a general name aa 
prchending all forts of corn, or grain, for bread. Hence 
It a ‘who follow the ie, ufe grano and [mene re 
tue fame. 
Thea t, barley rye, aie. &c. are Peace plants: 
Some aioe ufe frumentaceous -in a narrower fenfe, re- 
ftraining it plants which bea conformity to wheat, 
‘either in refpe€t of their fruits, ae ears, or the like. 
- But this feems founded on a miftaken notion of jrumentum, 
as if it — :d only awibeat, which i is rather the fenfe of the 
werd triticur 
FR 
UME NTARII, i in pi a a kind of foldiers ae 
archers, under the Weftern empire 
St. Cyprian relates, in one eof boas letters, that fome of thefe 
frumentarii were fent to take 
e frit tinic we read of frumentari, as officers, i is in the 
time of the emperor Adrian. Spartian, in his life of that. 
prince, aflures us, that he made ufe of them to inform’ himfelf- 
afle 
of what. d. 
Before this time, the name a was only given to 
the corn-merchants, or meafurers of co 
hefe frumentarit did n articular al 
citing: from the other nee but there was a certain 
r of them ine egton n, as, among us, ther 
number of grenadiers in each battalion. 
rt 
legion... It is fuppo they were ori r a4 number o 
bas es natirabe pote by os uftus “throughout the pro- 
o advertife the 
carria es, and on this account came ae be employed for he 
conveyance of corn, frumentum, to the ar mies 5 3 whence their 
a pellatin 
“Afterwards they were intcorporated ite the ae them- 
delves, where they ftil retained iil eae 
Their priticipal office was the cle a n which 
ey agreed’ lee thofe ae tify > Sith whom they were 
frequently jo joined. See OSUS 
‘“The fonetion » of thete foldiers at firft was to diftribute to 
their comrades the meafures of corn allotted to each man; 
pointed 
_ the emperor, 
F R U 
o a foldiers of a cohort, ‘or a — pots were directed 
amine into their aoe and give an account of fuch. 
as eles fhould believe to be oe and capable iof raifi aad 
difturbance. ir commiffion was afterwards enlar 
and they were authorifed to obferve, not only-in the Iagon 
but in the cities and provinces, every: commotion, every 
: Ae the court. 
ent calumnies 
‘upon falfe 
ed to 
officers, who cen became equally 
ormidable and pernictous. 
> FRUMENTATION, FRUMENTATIO; among the 
mans, a largefs of corn beftowed on the people. 
ut dae, of giving corn to the people, was a very a 
Romans, and oe ufed to foothe 
the turbulent humour of.the popu 
At firlt the number of thofe . chon ‘this largefs was 
given, was indetermi nate, till hoe uftus fixed it at we hun- 
dred thoufand. - 
FRUMENTIUS, in Biography, a faint in the Rom 
geen entitled the « Apoitle of Ethiopia,”’ was a. ares 
yre, and flourifhed in the fourth century. He- was 
educated a Meropius, a chriftian philofopher, bhi em- 
barked ..i voyage to India, and was accompanied’ by 
Fee ‘and another {cholar named 44 ited Dat having 
the misfortune to touch on the coait of E a, Meropius 
is {cholars 
e emperor. This 
s of age about his per- 
n his houfhold ; fhewed then marks of his favour, 
“hey . 
“Ro- 
— 
education of the young 
a this Sa ea ae fituation they were endbled to 
perfor any kind a ong others. they ob- 
see liberty forth Rone erent is refiding 3 in the ports 
of Ethiopia, who were chritians, 
a Sorhince God, and the hi 
onverts, amon 
cee pupil had Glenn himfelf t 
sovernmenty they, after much - “diffewlty. were allowed to 
fsa nee to Alex vandria, “ac- 
m what profpeéts ther 
“Frumentius, at the folicitation of 
Atencio, was »foon after confecrated a 
ona year 
331: h 
and a great ody « of | nis is. people, were nee 
to the chriftian fait h, and n were eftablifhed 
throughout the empire. Mor 
NTUM euaceceu in Botany, a name by 
which fome authors exprels the fagopyrum, or buck-wheat, 
ee PoLYGONUM. 
FRUME 
» Indian “as a name given by « our 
American planters oe "Maize, whic 
ENTY, eapuiale fone a kind of pottage, . 
the balis a is wheat, boiled up with milk, fugar, and 
- fometimes {pic 
and as their miniftry gave them an opportunity of knowing . 
oL. XV. 
Pliny aiid - that in his time they mixed chalk among ity, 2 
3F Galer 
