tironis

Updated: February 17, 2026

Atticus, too, had his Tiro, Alexis, "imago Tironis," as Cicero calls him in a letter to his friend, and many others who were engaged in the work of copying and transcribing books, which was one of Atticus' many pursuits.

W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler - Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero