Plate 4: Civilis tells the Dutch Elders that They are Being Treated Like Slaves by the Romans by Antonio Tempesta & Otto van Veen 1611

"For," he declared, "we are no longer regarded as allies, as once we were, but as slaves. When does a governor come to us with full commission, even though his suite would be burdensome and insolent if he came? We are handed over to prefects and centurions: after one band is satisfied with murder and spoils, the troops are shifted, and new purses are looked for to be filled and varied pretexts for plundering are sought. We are threatened with a levy which separates children from parents and brothers from brothers, as if in death."

-Tacitus, The Histories: Book 4, Chapter 14

Plate 4: Civilis tells the Dutch Elders that They are Being Treated Like Slaves by the Romans by Antonio Tempesta & Otto van Veen 1611, from The War of the Romans Against the Batavians (Romanorvm et Batavorvm societas). 6 9/16 × 8 1/4 in. (16.7 × 21 cm). Current location: MET Museum. Antonio Tempesta in collaboration with Otto van Veen published in 1612 in Antwerp a series of thirty-six etchings on the Batavians and the Romans in a book entitled Batavorum cum Romanis bellum.

Copy of Antonio Tempesta & Otto van Veen's work by an unknown artist in the 1700s.

Source:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/401412

https://www.wga.hu/html_m/t/tempesta/the_oath.html

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-OB-77.947(R)


Quote:

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/Histories/4A*.html