Note 23 — Chapter IX · THE EUPHRATES FRONTIER AND THE PARTHIANS.
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
This is what Augustus means when he says that he had brought again to the empire the provinces of the East in great part distributed among kings (Mon. Ancyr. 5, 41: provincias omnis, quae trans Hadrianum mare vergunt ad orientem, Cyrenasque, iam ex parte magna regibus eas possidentibus ... reciperavi).