horseback, without breaking line.

Batavia was already referred to by the Roman leader Julius Caesar as the "Island of the Batavi" in his account of his campaigns in Gaul in 58-52 BC -- although he did not explain who the Batavi were. Tacitus, writing in about 100 AD, reported that they had a special old alliance antiquae societatis with the empire as major contributors to the Roman military, and they did not pay any other form