Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Hexaphori

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. 

HEXAPH'ORI, sc. phalangarii. A set of six men who carry any burden by their joint exertions, united by the aid of a phalanga (Vitruv. x. 3. 7.), as explained in the articles PHALANGA and PHALANGARII, where the illustrations represent the operations performed by two men and by eight.