La Lusitania nel II secolo a. C. Nota a P. Artemid. col. IV, 11-14

Far from being a sign of forgery, the treatment of Lusitania in the Artemidorus papyrus - where it is described as a region under full Roman control - is exactly what one would expect to find in a text composed around 100 BC. Already in 138 and shortly afterwards, D. Iunius Brutus Lusitaniam … usque ad Oceanum perdomuit (Liv. Perioch. 55); the Romans who subsequently intervened in Lusitania, from C. Marius to L. Cornelius Dolabella, did so in their capacity as governors of the province of Hispania ulterior, in which Lusitania was included (Lusitanis devictis Hispania ulterior pacata, Obseq. 44a).