Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Siphonarii

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SIPHONA'RII. Firemen; or, as the French language more closely renders the term, pompiers, who worked the engines (siphones) kept for extinguishing conflagrations. They formed part of the cohort of watchmen (vigiles) established by Augustus. Inscript. ap. Mur. 788. 3.