[IULIANUS libro octagensimo sexto digestorum. ] §48.5.5.prNuptam mihi adulterii ream postulari posse in priore matrimonio commissi dubium non est, cum aperte lege Iulia de adulteriis coercendis caueatur, si quidem uidua sit, de cuius adulterio agetur, ut accusator liberum arbitrium habeat, adulterum an adulteram prius accusare malit: si uero nupta sit, ut prius adulterum peragat, tunc mulierem.
[JULIANUS, in the eighty-sixth book of the Digests.] There is no doubt that a woman married to me can be accused as defendant for adultery committed in her prior marriage, since it is clearly provided by the Julian law on restraining adulteries that, if indeed she whose adultery is to be tried is a widow, the accuser has free choice whether he prefers to accuse the male adulterer or the female adulterer first; but if she is married, he must first prosecute the male adulterer to the end, and then the woman.