Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Metitores

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. 

METITO'RES. Officers connected with the service of the aqueducts, whose duty it was to see that water was regularly laid on from the reservoir (castellum) into the branch pipes, which conducted it through the city, and to measure out the proper quantity allotted by law to each district. This was effected by regulating the diameter of the main pipes, and by a meter (calix) affixed to them. Frontin. Aq. 79.