debt-bondage

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 6 §27 to the stocks

  The bondage into which an insolvent debtor's body passed to his creditor—the 'stocks' and chains—whose terror drove the debt agitation of the book.

• The History of Rome, Book 7 §19 entered into bondage

  Nexum: the debt-bondage into which an insolvent debtor's person passed to his creditor, the running grievance behind the book's debt agitation.

• The History of Rome, Book 8 §28 bound over for debt

  Nexum: the bondage by which an insolvent debtor pledged his own person; abolished after the outrage on the youth Publilius.