Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

After promulgating the law about adulterers, [*](Lex Iulia de adulteriis et de pudicitia. Cf. Horace, Odes, iv. 5. 21; Dio Cassius, liv. 16.) in which it was specified how the accused were to be tried, and how the convicted were to be punished, he later, under stress of anger, fell upon a young man whose name had been linked in gossip with his daughter Julia, and struck him with his fists; but when the young man cried out, You have made a law, Caesar, such a revulsion of feeling came over him that he refused food the rest of the day.