A source-book of ancient history - The Search For Mecca

446 The Revolution
Funerals.
are suspicious, they investigate the conduct of the wives
in the same way as that of slaves; and if proof is obtained,
they put the wives to severe torture and kill them.
In view of the state of civilization among the Gauls, their
funerals are magnificent and costly. As one of the funeral
rites they cast into the fire all those possessions of the deceased,
including living creatures, which they suppose to
have been dear to him in his life. Until lately slaves and
clients who were known to have been beloved by the deceased
were burned with his body at the close of the fimeral
rites.
IV.
C^SAR AS Dictator
Honors to
Caesar.
Appian, Civil
Wars, ii. 106.
A ncient
World, 439-
42.
After ending the civil wars Caesar hastened to Rome,
honored and feared as no one had ever been before.
kinds of honors were devised for his gratification without
stint, even such as were more than human,—sacrifices,
games, statues in all the temples and public places, by
every tribe, by all the provinces, and by the kings in alliance
with Rome. His portrait was painted in various
forms, and in some cases crowned with oak as that of the
saviour of his country. . . . He was proclaimed the
Father of his Country and chosen dictator for life, and his
person was declared sacred and inviolable.
All
It was decreed
that he should transact business on a throne of ivory and
gold; that he should always perform his sacerdotal functions
in triumphal dress; that each year the city should
celebrate the days on which he had won his victories;
that every five years the priests and Vestal virgins should
offer up public prayers for his safety; and that the magistrates
immediately after their inauguration should take
an oath not to oppose any of Caesar's decrees.
In honor of
his gens the name of the month Quintilis was changed to