The German was loyal as the Celt was dissolute.

Alone among barbarians, he contented himself with a single wife, save that a few dignitaries, from motives of policy, were permitted a larger number.

On the marriage day the German offered presents to his bride--not the bracelets and golden necklaces with which the Gaul adorned his fair-haired concubine, but oxen and a bridled horse, a sword, a shield, and a spear-symbols that thenceforward she was to share his labors and to become a portion of himself.
They differed, too, in the honors paid to the dead.

The funerals of the Gauls were pompous.

Both burned the corpse, but the Celt cast into the flames the favorite animals, and even the most cherished slaves and dependents of the master.