Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Vectiarius

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. 

VECTIA'RIUS. The labourer who works the capstan (sucula) by means of a capstan-bar (vectis), which forces down the press-beam (prelum) in a wine or oil-press (torcular). Vitruv. vi. 6. 3.