[TRYPHONINUS libro secundo disputationum. ] §48.5.43.prSi is, qui ius anulorum impetrauit, adulterium commisit in patroni uxorem aut in patronam suam, aut in eius eiue, cuius libertus patris aut matris, filii filiaeue fuit: an ut libertus puniri debeat? et si deprehensus sit in adulterio, an impune occidatur? et magis probo subiciendum poenae libertinorum, quoniam lege Iulia de adulteriis coercendis ad tuenda matrimonia pro libertinis eos haberi placuit et deteriorem causam per istud beneficium patronorum haberi non oportet.
[TRYPHONINUS, Disputations, Book II.] If he who has obtained the right of gold rings has committed adultery against the wife of his patron, or against his own patroness, or against the [wife] of him, or against her, whose father, mother, son, or daughter he had been the freedman of, should he be punished as a freedman? And if he should be caught in the act of adultery, can he be killed with impunity? And I rather approve the view that he should be subjected to the punishment of freedmen, since under the Julian Law on restraining adulteries it was resolved, for the protection of marriages, that they should be regarded as freedmen, and it is not proper that the position of patrons should be made worse through this benefit.