Omnium harum gentium virtute praecipui Batavi non multum ex ripa, sed insulam Rheni amnis colunt, Chattorum quondam populus et seditione domestica in eas sedes transgressus, in quibus pars  Romani imperii fierent.
Of all these races the most manly are the Batavi, who occupy only a short stretch of the river-bank, but with it the island in the stream: they were once a tribe of the Chatti, and on account of a rising at home they crossed the river for those lands which were to make them part of the Roman Empire.
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