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Marcus Tullius Tiro
Secretary and personal assistant to Marcus Tullius Cicero · Writers · Lived 103 BC to 4 BC · aged 99
Marcus Tullius Tiro (73-4 BC) was first a slave, then a freedman, of Cicero from whom he received his nomen and praenomen. He is frequently mentioned in Cicero's letters. After Cicero's death Tiro published his former master's collected works of letters and speeches.
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He also wrote a considerable number of books himself, and is thought to have invented an early form of shorthand.
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 103 BC to 4 BC · aged 99
