Vigiles (Roman officials)

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• Work cat.: 96-163443: Reynolds, P.K.B. The vigiles of imperial Rome, 1996.
• Ox. classic. dict.:p. 1120 (Vigiles: After A.D.6, Augustus created a corps of 7,000 Vigiles, all freedmen, organized into 7 cohorts, and entrusted with fire prevention and petty larceny.)
• PREMARC, Dec. 23, 1997(Rome (City). Vigiles.)

Vigiles or more properly the Vigiles Urbani ("watchmen of the City") or Cohortes Vigilum ("cohorts of the watchmen") were the firefighters and police of ancient Rome.