But negligence was not the only problem. Entire sections of the administration-especially in the financial sector-escaped state control (at least directly): that is, the accounts of tax-collecting societies. Even if a copy of a five-year contract were deposited in the censors' archives, the annul and monthly breakdown of the accounts of taxes was found only in the local accounts of provincial promagistri, and eventually, as copies in the hands of the magistri and ex-magistri of the societies.引自第125页
Augustus时期：力图更加精确地控制帝国的空间（physical and human)
We have seen that Augustus, throught his reign, sought to make knowledge and representation of the imperial sphere more precise, which ultimately implied the creation of a geography, a chorography, and even a cartography that were coherent and progressively improving. But there is not only the physical sphere to be considered: there is also the human sphere in administrative and economic terms, whose control depends on the mastery of statistical information concerning it. That is to say, the preparation and the consultation of documents, at all levels of power, is necessary in order to know and to command, in order to be correctly informed and to keep one's surbordinates well informed. There, an administrative history of the empire at the crucial moment of its foundation must proceed first, it seems clear, with an inquiry about its concrete and logistical functioning.引自第125页
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