From Latin, the one who walks ahead, the one who opens the way. Slave or freedman who sometimes pushed his way to his master or patron in the busy streets of Rome especially on market or feast days. This is testified by Suetonius, Marcial, Juvenal and others. Fate locum domino piss, make way for my lord. The lord used to go in a bunk or carriage and rarely walk.
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