Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Signifer

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. 

SIG'NIFER (σημαιοφόρος). An ensign or standard-bearer in the Roman armies (Cic. Div. i. 35. Caes. B. G. ii. 25.); a general term, which will include all the individual officers, who nevertheless received a special title from the particular kind of ensign they carried, such as the Imaginifer, Draconarius, &c., whose ensigns were all classed under the name of signa militaria. The annexed example (Signifer/1.1), from Trajan's Column, exhibits the signifer of a cohort, whose standard is different from either of those mentioned.

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  Signifer/1.1