At 04:20 -0500 2003-01-23, Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>Question: Using a 7 for the Tironian, is "7rl" equivalent to
>"etc."? What is the fully-written-out Irish form?

"Agus araile". It is also abbreviated "srl." since "augus" 'and' is
often abbreviated to "is" or "'s".

>What/who does "Tironian" refer to?

Cicero's "ex-slave, secretary, and companion" (D&B pp 807-808).

>This reminds me that I discovered a [source]book in our local
>library published maybe 1890 or so that contained many specimens of
>typeset "earlier" English, Anglo-Saxon, and maybe Gaelic. The
>variety of typefaces was impressive, and considering the old letters
>they contained, represented a
>good amount of work.

Reference?
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