Marcus Tullius Tiro
Secretary and personal assistant to Marcus Tullius Cicero / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marcus Tullius Tiro (died 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. He also wrote a considerable number of books himself, and is thought to have invented an early form of shorthand.