Marcus Tullius Tiro

Reading notes

• Ad Atticum 7.2 §3 I left Tiro sick at Patrae

  Tiro was Cicero's trusted secretary (later his freedman and the editor of his letters); Patrae (modern Patras) was the Achaean port where the homeward party put in, and Cicero left the ailing Tiro there in Curius's care.

• Ad Atticum 9.17 §2 anything has been written to you about Tiro

  Marcus Tullius Tiro, Cicero's learned freedman and confidential secretary, had fallen ill and been left behind on the journey; Cicero, anxious for news, prizes his service and loyalty especially in the present crisis.

• Ad Atticum 13.9 §1 to dictate it to Tiro

  Marcus Tullius Tiro, Cicero's freedman and confidential secretary, who took dictation and ran his literary affairs. The point is that even his most trusted amanuensis must not hear the matter.

• Ad Atticum 15.8 §1 sent off Tiro

  Marcus Tullius Tiro, Cicero's freedman and confidential secretary, here dispatched as a trusted courier to carry letters and bring back news.

• Ad Atticum 15.18 §1 Tiro must be sent to you

  Marcus Tullius Tiro, Cicero's freedman secretary, dispatched to Atticus at Rome to handle the financial and other business under discussion.

• Ad Atticum 15.21 §2 Tiro tells me that Brundisium no longer appeals to you

  Tiro, Cicero's freedman and confidential secretary. The point at issue is Cicero's projected sea-crossing to Greece: he weighs sailing from Brundisium, the usual Adriatic port, against Hydruntum (Otranto) further south.

• Ad Atticum 16.5 §5 Tiro has a thing like seventy

  Marcus Tullius Tiro, Cicero's freedman and secretary, who kept and organized copies of his master's correspondence; here he holds some seventy letters that Cicero intends to revise before publication.

• Ad Atticum 16.13 §3 Tiro will tell you

  Marcus Tullius Tiro, Cicero's confidential freedman and former secretary, devoted to his old master and trusted with private matters.

• Ad Atticum 16.16 §1 What he and Tiro discussed I shall learn from Tiro himself

  M. Tullius Tiro was Cicero's freedman, secretary, and trusted confidant; here he is the go-between whose report Cicero awaits.

• Ad Familiares 16.13 §1 Tiro

  Marcus Tullius Tiro: Cicero's slave, manumitted around 53 BC, secretary, literary collaborator, and lifelong intimate. The recipient of all letters in Ad Familiares book 16.

• Ad Familiares 16.16 §1 preferring that he, unworthy of that station, should be our friend rather than our slave

  Quintus rejoices that his brother has freed Tiro: manumission turned the slave into a freedman (libertus) and so a 'friend' who could be a formal member of the household's circle. This letter dates the freeing of Tiro to 53 BC.