[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.

[123] E.g., Juvenal, iv, 18-21.  Pliny, Letters, ii, 20.

[124] Digest, xiv, 1 and 3 and 8—­on the actio exercitoria and institoria.  Cf.  Codex, iv, 25, 4:  et si a muliere magister navis praepositus fuerit, etc.

[125] CIL, xiv, 326.

[126] Martial, xi, 71.  Apuleius, Metam., v, 10.  Soranus, i, 1, ch. 1 and 2.  Galen, vii, 414 (cf. xiii, 341).

[127] E.g.  Suetonius, Nero, 27.

[128] Carmina Priapea, 18 and 27.  Ulpian, xiii, 1.  The Roman drama had now degenerated into mere vaudeville, mostly lascivious dancing.  Senators and their children were forbidden to marry any woman who had herself or whose father or mother had been on the stage.

[129] Martial, ii, 17, 1.

[130] Petronius, Sat., 45:  Titus noster ... habet et mulierem essedariam.  This would not be strange, when we reflect that under Domitian noble ladies even fought in the arena.

[131] Thesmophoriazusae, 443-459.

[132] See Cicero, pro Caecina, 5, for an account of these business agents for women.

[133] Paulus, ii, xi; id. in Dig., 16, 1, 1; Aulus Gellius, v, 19; Pomponius in Dig., 48, 2, 1:  non est permissum mulieri publico iudicio quemquam reum facere.

[134] Ulpian in Dig., 1, 16, 9.  Salvius Julianus, Pars Prima, vi:  si non habebunt advocatum, ego dabo.  Alexander Severus (222-235 A.D.) gave pensions to those advocates in the provinces who pleaded free of charge—­Lampridius, Alex.  Severus, 44.

[135] Cf.  Paulus in Dig., 23, 3, 28.  Codex, v, 13, 1, and 18, 1.  Ulpian in Dig., iii, 3, 8.

[136] Gaius, i, 137.

[137] Frag. iur.  Rom.  Vat., 325; id., 327 (from Papinian):  mulieres quoque et sine tutoris auctoritate procuratorem facere posse.

[138] Ulpian in Dig., iii, 3, 8; ibid., Paulus, iii, 3, 41.

[139] Ulpian in Dig., iii, 5, 3.

[140] Pomponius in Dig., 48, 2, 1; ibid., Papinian, 48, 2, 2—­who adds that she could also do so in a case regarding the will of a mother or father’s freedman.

[141] Marcianus in Dig., 48, 2, 13.

[142] Papinian in Dig., 48, 4, 8.

[143] Juvenal, vi, 242—­245.

[144] Valerius Maximus, viii, 3, 3.  Appian, B.C., iv, 32 ff.  Quintilian, i, 1, 6.