[823] Lex Papia-Poppaea, Pand., XXXVIII, xi; XXIII, i, and commentators; Gaius, i, 178, etc.
[824] Cod., V, ix.
[825] Cod., VI, xl; Nov. xxii, 43. He speaks of a law said to have been passed by one Julius Miscellus, but there was no such person. For a clue to the muddle, see Daremberg and S. Dict. Antiq. sb. Lex, where the best list of these old laws will be found.
[826] Nov. lxxiv, 4, etc. He excuses these lapses by "nothing is stronger than the fury of love, and how can those so affected resist the blandishments of those they love?"
[827] Cod. V, xxvii, 6, 7, 8; Nov. lxxxix, 12, 15, etc. Incestuous children are, however, barred from all such privileges.
[828] Cod., V, xvii, 8.
[829] Ibid., 11; Nov. xxii. Some of Justinian's just causes of divorce are procuring abortion and bathing in the public baths with men. Wife-beaters are not divorceable, but must make large pecuniary compensation; Nov. cxvii, 14.
[830] Nov. cxvii, 10; cxxxiv, 11.
[831] Nov. cxl.
[832] See the two prefaces to the Code.