Acts of Peter

Acts of Peter martyrdom-5:1

And a very beautiful woman, the wife of Albinus, a friend of the emperor, named Xanthippe, also came to Peter with the other matrons, and kept away from Albinus. Being in love with Xanthippe, he became enraged and wondered why she did no more share the couch with him, and, mad, like a beast, he intended to kill Peter. For he perceived that he was the cause of the separation from the bed. But many other women delighted in the preaching concerning chastity and separated from their husbands, and men removed the couches of their wives, because they wished to serve God in chastity and purity. And there was a great commotion in Rome, and Albinus told Agrippa what had happened to him, and said, “Either thou avengest me of Peter, who has alienated my wife from me, or I shall avenge myself.” And Agrippa said, “I suffered the same, for he has alienated my concubines.” And Albinus said to him, “Why art thou waiting? Let us seize him and kill him as an inquisitive man, that we may get our wives back, and avenge those also, which cannot kill him, whose wives he has also alienated.”