Any infringement of this vow was punished by burial alive—for instances, see Suetonius, Domitian, 8; Herodian, iv, 6, 4: Pliny, Letters iv, 11; Dio, 77, 16 (Xiphilin). Their paramours were beaten to death.
A full account of the Vestals will be found in Aulus Gellius, i, 12.
Quintilian, vii, 3, 27: ad servum nulla lex pertinet. On the rare instances when a slave could inform against his master in a public court, see Hermogenianus in Dig., v, 1, 53.