Note 200 — Chapter XII · EGYPT.
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
The current assertion that provincia is only by an abuse of language put for the districts not administered by senators is not well founded. Egypt was private property of the emperor just as much or just as little as Gaul and Syria—yet Augustus himself says (Mon. Ancyr. 5, 24) Aegyptum imperio populi Romani adieci, and assigns to the governor, since he as eques could not be pro praetore, by special law the same jurisdiction in processes as the Roman praetors had (Tacitus, Ann. xii. 60).