Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 29.2.3

[3] And in order that even wives should have no time to weep over the misfortunes of their husbands, men were immediately sent to put the seal ¹ on the houses, and during the examination of the furniture of the householder who had been condemned, to introduce privily old-wives’ incantations or unbecoming love-potions, contrived for the ruin of innocent people. And when these were read in a court where there was no law or scruple or justice to distinguish truth from falsehood, without opportunity for defence young and old without discrimination were robbed of their goods and, although they were found stained by no fault, after being maimed in all their limbs were carried off in litters to execution.