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the friendship of me and of the Roman people. By my order and auspices two armies were led at
about the same time into Ethiopia and into that part of Arabia which is called Happy, and the
troops of each nation of enemies were slaughtered in battle and many towns captured. They
penetrated into Ethiopia all the way to the town Nabata, which is near to Meroe; and into Arabia all
the way to the border of the Sabaei, advancing to the town Mariba.

27. I added Egypt to the rule of the Roman people. When Artaxes, king of Greater Armenia, was
killed, though I could have made it a province, I preferred, by the example of our elders, to hand
over that kingdom to Tigranes, son of king Artavasdes, and grandson of King Tigranes, through
Tiberius Nero, who was then my step-son. And the same nation, after revolting and rebelling, and
subdued through my son Gaius, I handed over to be ruled by King Ariobarzanes son of Artabazus,
King of the Medes, and after his death, to his son Artavasdes; and when he was killed, I sent
Tigranes, who came from the royal clan of the Armenians, into that rule. I recovered all the
provinces which lie across the Adriatic to the east and Cyrene, with kings now possessing them in
large part, and Sicily and Sardina, which had been occupied earlier in the slave war.

28. I founded colonies of soldiers in Africa, Sicily, Macedonia, each Spain, Greece, Asia, Syria,
Narbonian Gaul, and Pisidia, and furthermore had twenty-eight colonies founded in Italy under my
authority, which were very populous and crowded while I lived.

29. I recovered from Spain, Gaul, and Dalmatia the many military standards lost through other
leaders, after defeating te enemies. I compelled the Parthians to return to me the spoils and
standards of three Roman armies, and as suppliants to seek the friendship of the Roman people.
Furthermore I placed those standards in the sanctuary of the temple of Mars Ultor.

30. As for the tribes of the Pannonians, before my principate no army of the Roman people had
entered their land. When they were conquered through Tiberius Nero, who was then my step-son
and emissary, I subjected them to the rule of the Roman people and extended the borders of
Illyricum to the shores of the river Danube. On the near side of it the army of the Dacians was
conquered and overcome under my auspices, and then my army, led across the Danube, forced the
tribes of the Dacians to bear the rule of the Roman people.
31. Emissaries from the Indian kings were often sent to me, which had not been seen before that
time by any Roman leader. The Bastarnae, the Scythians, and the Sarmatians, who are on this side
of the river Don and the kings further away, and the kings of the Albanians, of the Iberians, and of
the Medes, sought our friendship through emissaries.

32. To me were sent supplications by kings: of the Parthians, Tiridates and later Phrates son of king
Phrates, of the Medes, Artavasdes, of the Adiabeni, Artaxares, of the Britons, Dumnobellaunus and
Tincommius, of the Sugambri, Maelo. King Phrates of the Parthians, son of Orodes, sent all his sons
and grandsons into Italy to me, though defeated in no war, but seeking our friendship through the
pledges of his children. And in my principate many other peoples experienced the faith of the
Roman people, of whom nothing had previously existed of embassies or interchange of
friendship with the Roman people.

33. The nations of the Parthians and Medes received from me the first kings of those nations which
they sought by emissaries: the Parthians, Vonones son of king Phrates, grandson of king Orodes,
the Medes, Ariobarzanes, son of king Artavasdes, grandson of king Aiobarzanes.