According to historian Michael Rostovtzeff, administrators “tried to regulate and to systematize [the institution], but without success, for so long as the practice existed, it was bound to produce evil effects.
يقول المؤرخ مايكل روستوفتزيف ان الحكام « حاولوا تنظيم وضبط [ممارسات السُّخرة] لكنهم فشلوا .‏