After having celebrated three triumphs, he reorganized the empire by using the wealth of defeated Egypt.
He returned to the Senate the management of all but three provinces (that he reserves for himself: Gaul, Hispania and Syria). Following his victory at Actium in 30 BC, Octavian became the absolute master of Rome. By 19 BC, the Asturian and Cantabrian peoples will eventually accept the Pax Romana, at the cost of many massacres and executions performed under the orders of Agrippa, final winner of the last independent tribes of the peninsula.What the imperial administration had not expected, however, was the duration of the war, which will continue until 19 BC, and require sending many legions, and even the personal intervention of Octavian, who became the Emperor Augustus in 26 BC.