Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lecticarii

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. 

LECTICA'RII (φορειαφόροι, κλινηφόροι). Palanquin-bearers. These were of two kinds, private or public. The first were slaves forming part of the domestic establishment of individuals, who kept them for the purpose. (Cic. Fam. iv. 12. Suet. Cal. 58.) The latter were free men of the labouring classes, who plied for hire at particular stands in the city of the Rome, called castra lecticariorum, where a number of these conveyances were kept always ready for a fare, as sedan-chairs used to be in modern Europe. P. Victor. de Reg. Urb. Rom. iii. 49.