The Outrages of Maxentius at Rome

For the man who had seized the imperial city by tyranny had gone to great lengths in impiety and wickedness, so that he ventured without hesitation on every vile and impure act. [a]

For example, he would separate wives from their husbands and after a time send them back to them again, and he offered these insults not to men of low or obscure position, but to those who held the first places in the Roman Senate. And though he shamefully dishonored almost countless free women, he could not satisfy his unbridled and intemperate desires. But when he tried to corrupt Christian women as well, he could no longer succeed in his designs, for they chose to give up their lives to death rather than yield their bodies to be defiled by him.