Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tetraphori

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. 

TETRAPH'ORI, sc. phalangarii. Porters who carried a load in a body of four, by means of a bearing pole (phalanga). Vitruv. x. 3. 7. See the illustrations s. PHALANGA and PHALANGARII, where the operation is performed by two men, and by eight, respectively.