BONDAGE by the Forelock, or Bondagium per anteri-ores capitis, was when a freemen renounced his liberty,
Bondman
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Bones.
liberty, and became slave to some great man: which was done by the ceremony of cutting off a lock of hair from the forehead, and delivering it to his lord; denoting that he was to be maintained by him for the future. Such a bondman, if he reclaimed his liberty, or were fugitive from his master, might be drawn again to his servitude by the nose; whence the origin of the popular menace to pull a man by the nose.