Tironian Notes

Tiro would have written to you, only I left him seriously ill at Issus. But I have news that he is better. Nevertheless I am distressed. For nothing can exceed that young man’s purity of conduct and attention to business. Cicero, letter to Atticus

A shorthand script originally formulated some 500 years ago for Latin shorthand by a secretary of famous Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero - now used by some writers who need to copy or transcribe quickly (and are either in discussion with someone else who knows the shorthand, or using it to make notes for themselves¹).

Footnotes

1. The Tironian notes would become popular with copyists in the Middle Ages for a brief time. And in-game, it serves as a way to add a a little twist here or there among educated writers who would otherwise be writing in common Latin. ↩