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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SHORTHAND IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME. is made by ancient Grecian and Roman writers of an abbreviated mode of writing, or stenography. Accordingto Diogenes Laertius, Xenophon first took down the sayings of Socrates in notes. But this may mean no more than that he noted down the sayings of Socrates. The Latins claim the invention of abbreviated writing. Ennius (about 150 years before Christ) is said to have invented more than one thousand common notes or abbreviations, called common because intended for general use; but none of this brief writing has been discovered. Plutarch rejects Ennius and is in favor of Cicero. Eusebius gives the merit of the invention to Tiro the freedman of Cicero. Dion Cassius thinks Maecenas was the inventor of notes for swiftness of writing, at least of some of them. Seneca attributes the invention and the cultivation of this species of writing to freedmen and slaves, as Tiro, Porsennius, and Aquila, whose performances were, according to the custom of the times, attributed to their patrons and masters. The characters employed were mostly abbreviations of Roman and Greek letters, with a few special signs for prepositions. Letters sometimes stood for words. There were also marks to express the persons, numbers, and cases of verbs, nouns and pronouns. Seneca is said to have added at least five thousand characters to those of Tiro, chiefly abbreviations of words. This Roman shorthand was improved and extended by various writers, and Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, is saidto have put the finishing touch to it by the addition of many notes for Scripture proper names and terms used by the Christians, thereby rendering the art much more useful to the faithful. From certain passages in ancient authors it would appear that verbatim r...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458828705
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 66
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458828700
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 136 gr


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