Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Vespillones

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. 

VESPILLO'NES. Undertakers' men, who carried out the corpses of poor people at night-time, or in the dusk (from vesper), because they could not afford the expense of a funeral procession. Festus, s. v. Suet. Dom. 17.