person

Marcus Tullius (Cicero's secretary)

M. Tullius

also: M. Tullius, Tullius

Cicero's scriba (clerk/secretary), who kept and rendered the accounts of Cicero's Cilician proconsulship (51-50 BC); the figure L. Mescinius suspected of mishandling the provincial accounts in Fam. 5.20. Distinct from Cicero himself and from the freedman Tiro.

Reading notes

Ad Atticum 5.4 §1 Tullius the secretary
A scriba was a professional public clerk who handled magistrates' records and accounts. This M. Tullius (no relation to Cicero) served as Cicero's secretary and kept the accounts of his Cilician proconsulship.
Ad Atticum 13.22 §4 Tullius my secretary
M. Tullius, Cicero's clerk (scriba), who had kept his provincial accounts; distinct from Cicero himself and from the freedman Tiro. A sum of Cicero's was in his hands, earmarked for the gardens purchase.
Ad Familiares 5.20 §1 my secretary M. Tullius
Cicero's scriba (a salaried public clerk, here his personal accounts-secretary), who drew up the official account-books of the Cilician proconsulship. He happens to share Cicero's nomen Tullius but is no relation; Mescinius suspected him of mishandling the figures.