[96] Aulus Gellius, xvii, 21, 44. Valerius Maximus, ii, 1, 4. Plutarch, _Roman Questions_, 14. [97] Valerius Maximus, vi, 3, 12. [98] "If you should catch your wife in adultery, you would put her to death with impunity; she, on her part, would not dare to touch you with her finger; and it is not right that she should"--Speech of Cato the Censor, quoted by Aulus Gellius, x, 23. [99] E.g., Marcellus in Dig., 24, 3, 38: Maevia Titio repudium misit, etc.; ibid., Africanus, 24, 3, 34: Titia divortium a Seio fecit, etc. Martial, x, 41: Mense novo lani veterem, Proculeia, maritum Deseris, atque iubes res sibi habere suas. Apuleius, _Apologia_, 547: utramvis habens culpam mulier, quae aut tam intolerabilis fuit ut repudiaretur aut tam insolens ut repudiaret. _Novellae_, 140, 1: Antiquitus quidem licebat sine periculo tales [i.e., those of incompatible temperament] ab invicem separari secundum communem voluntatem et consensum. [100] Martial, vi, 7. [101] Aulus Gellius, x, 15: Matrimonium flaminis nisi morte dirimi ius non est. [102] Tacitus, _Annals_, iv, 16. [103] Ulpian, vi, 6; id. in Dig., 24, 3, 2. Pauli fragmentam in Boethii commentario ad Topica, 2, 4, 19. [104] Paulus in Dig. ii,3, 41. [105] Ulpian, vi, 13. [106] Ulpian, vi, 9-17, and vii, 2-3. Pauli frag, in Boethii comm. ad Top., ii, 4, 19. [107] Ulpian, xiv: feminis lex Iulia a morte viri anni tribuit vacationem, a divortio sex mensum; lex autem Papia a morte viri biennii, a repudio anni et sex mensum. [108] Ulpian in Dig., 25, 3, 1. Paulus, ii, xxiv, 5. [109] Ulpian in Dig., 25, 4, 8. [110] Codex, v, 24, 1. [111] Codex, vi, 60, 1: Res, quae ex matris successione fuerint ad filios devolutae, ita sint in parentum potestate, ut fruendi dumtaxat habeant facultatem, dominio videlicet carum ad liberos pertinente. [112] Neratius in Dig., 26, 1, 18. [113] Codex, v, 35, 1. [114] Codex, ii, 12, 18: alienam suscipere defensionem virile officium est ... filio itaque tuo, si pupillus est, tutorem pete. [115] Ulpian, Tit. viii, 7_a_. Paulus, i, 4, 4. [116] _ad Helviam matrem de consol_., xiv, 3. [117] Other instances of women trustees will be found in Apuleius, _Apologia_ 516; Paulus in Dig; iii, 5,23 (24): avia nepotis sui negotia gessit, etc.; ibid., Marcellus, 46, 3, 48: Titia cum propter dotem bona mariti possideret, omnia pro domina egit, reditus exegit, etc. [118] Tacitus, _Agricola_, 43. [119] Frag. iur. Rom. Vat., 282. [120] Ulpian, viii, 7a. [121] Gaius, ii, 227. Digest, 35, 2. [122] E.g. Pliny, _Letters_, v, 1. Codex, iii, 28, 19; id., iii, 28, 28. Cf. Codex, iii, 29, I, and 29, 7; and Paulus in Dig., v, 2, 19. Note the extreme anxiety of the son of Prudentilla about her money as given by Apuleius, _Apologia_, 517. The estate of a mother who died intestate went to her children, not to her husband; the latter could only enjoy the interest until they arrived at maturity--Codex, vi, 60, 1; Modestinus in Dig., 38, 17, 4.