de bello gallico, 6.19

As much money as the husbands have received in the name of dowry from their wives, with an estimate having been made, they join so much with the dowries out of their own goods. An account is kept of all this money conjointly, and the profits are preserved: which of these two survives in life, to that one comes the part of both with the profits of the previous times. Husbands have power of life and death over their wives as well as over their children; and when the father of a family, having been born in a more distinguished rank, has died, his relations assemble and, if the circumstance of his death comes into suspicion, hold an investigation of the wives in the servile manner, and, if it was verified, kill them having been tormented by fire and totures. Their funerals, for civilization of the Gauls, are magnificent and costly; and everything, which they think were dear to them living they carry into the fire, even animals; and, a little before this memory, slaves and clients, whom it was agreed were beloved by them, with the regular funeral rites having been completed, were burnt together (with them).