FRISII, FRISEI, FRISIONES, and FRISONES, in Ancient Geography, a people of Germany, so called either from their ardent love of freedom, or from the fresh and unbroken lands they occupied, contradiistinguished from the old lands. Tacitus divides them, from their extent of power and territory, into the Mayores, situated on the coasts between the Rhine and the Ems; and into the Minores, occupying the parts about the lakes lying between the channels of the Rhine.