Der bekannteste Fall für das Delikt, eine Schwangere durch Mißhandlung getötet zu haben, ist wohl Neros Tritt gegen den Bauch seiner Frau Poppaea Sabina (65 u.Z.).

Aber auch hierzu gibt es einen weiteren Bericht, der Herodes Atticus betrifft, sogar mit folgendem Prozeß:

A Charge of murder was also brought against Herodes, and it was made up in his way. His wife Regilla, it was said, was in the eighth month of her pregnancy, and Herodes ordered his freeman Alcimedon [Ἀλκιμέδοντι ἀπελευθέρῳ] to beat her for some slight fault, and the woman died in premature childbirth from a blow in the belly. On these grounds, as though true [ὡς ἀληθέσι γράφεται], Regilla’s brother Braduas brought a suit against him for murder. [...]

Two things helped him in his defence. First that he had given orders for no such severe measures against Regilla; secondly, his extraordinary grief at her death. Even this was regarded as a pretence and made a charge against him, but nevertheless the truth prevailed. For he never would have dedicated to her memory so fine a theatre nor would he have postponed for her sake the casting of lots for his second consulship, if he had not been innocent of the charge; nor again would he have made an offering of her apparel at the temple of Eleusis, if he had been polluted by a murder when he brought it, for this was more likely to turn the goddesses into avengers of the murder than to win their pardon [τουτὶ γὰρ τιμωροὺς τοῦ φόνου ποιοῦντος ἦν τὰς θεὰς μᾶλλον ἢ ξυγγνώμονας].

(Philostratus: Lives of the Sophists. Ed. by Wilmer Cave Wright. Cambridge (Mass.)/London 1921, pp. 158-161)