Their funerals, considering the state of civilization among the Gauls, are magnificent and costly; and they cast into the fire all things, including living creatures, which they suppose to have been dear to them when alive; and, a little before this period, slaves and dependents, who were ascertained to have been beloved by them, were, after the regular funeral rites were completed, burnt together with them.
Nec defuere praestantissimi doctrina sapientiaque viri, qui, quamvis studiorum curis rerumque vestigationibus distenti, numquam tamen committerent ut vel unus dilaberetur dies, quin, positis genibus ante Deiparae imaginem, eam hoc piissimo more precarentur.latin-ancient latin-ancient