Batavi
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Dutch · Batavians · Hollandos · the Batavians
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
The Dutch, whose right to navigate freely to the Indies is defended on the basis of the common right of the sea.
Ipsi Batavi multo magis desperata aggressi sunt.
Et sic Batavorum intentio communi iure nititur, cum fateantur omnes, permissum cuilibet in mari navigare etiam a nullo Principe impetrata licentia; quod Legibus Hispanicis diserte expressum est.
Respondebunt Batavi:
The Rights of War and Peace
Germanic people who sent a message to Herennius Gallus declaring peaceable intent near Bonn.
We are informed by Tacitus, that the Batavians, as soon as they came near the camp at Bonn, sent a message to Herennius Gallus, importing that “they had no hostile design;