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  • Aquitaine, but this theory has broken down, for Prosper of Aquitaine in some manuscripts of the "Consular Chronicle" is called Tiro

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • Palmeiras away uniforms were with the Tiro model, with white base colour.

    S.E Palmeiras team kits 2009/10 Azmie aka switch image 2009

  • Palmeiras away uniforms were with the Tiro model, with white base colour.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Azmie aka switch image 2009

  • He beckoned me over and whispered in my ear, Run after him, Tiro.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • If ever you wished for a symbol of all that is best about Roman justice, Tiro, you saw it this morning.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • Tiro says there are also poor people in America what do you say?

    “We are Preparing” « Peace Corps South Africa 2008

  • Tiro was the first man to record a speech in the Senate verbatim, and his shorthand system, known as Notae Tironianae, was still in use in the church in the sixth century; indeed, some traces of it the symbol “&,” the abbreviations “etc.,” “n.b.,” “i.e.,” “e.g.” survive to this day.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • “Time for us to start counting our spoons, then, Tiro,” said Cicero, and Balbus clapped his hands and pulled up his knees and literally rocked with laughter.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • I have my faults, Tiro—you know them better than any man: no need to point them out—but I am not like Pompey, or Caesar, or Crassus.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • Such dreams I had, Tiro—such hopes of glory and renown.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

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