Nicholas Bodley scripsit:

> What/who does "Tironian" refer to?

Traditionally, to Cicero's freedman and amanuensis, Tiro, who is supposed
to have invented Tironian "et" and various other shorthand signs.
The high point of Tironian abbreviations is not Classical times, but
Carolingian ones.

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