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But Cicero's notes were
originally intended merely to meet the requirements
of the moment, and were afterwards collected1 by
Tiro. In making this apology I do not mean to
imply that I disapprove of them, but merely wish
to make them more worthy of admiration. And in
this connexion I must state that I admit the use of
brief memoranda and note-books, which may even be
held in the hand and referred to from time to time.
1 Or perhaps “abbreviated.” Tiro was Cicero's friend, freedman and secretary.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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