| II Kings 2:23
| And he went up from thence to Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, little boys came out of the city and mocked him, saying: Go up, thou bald-head, go up, thou bald-head.
| Bald-head. It is not known whether Eliseus was really bald, or only wore his hair short, like the priests of the Lord, and the monks at present. It may also be a term of reproach, of which the emperors Julius Caesar, Domitian, and Otho, were very sensible. Caesar wore a crown of laurel, and Otho a sort of false hair, to hide this deformity. (Suetonius) Quod summum formae decus est, periere capilli. (Petronius) (Calmet)
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