| Show I SHORTHAND NOT MOT MODERN I ly fur fh- fh Ancient Greek mill 1111 In Cicero's Time Shorthand Is so closely close associated with tho time hurry and mind rush rUh of or modern business wih that lint U it i I Its is startling to think oCI of oC It having been In uso use among anon tho lie an- an ancient an an- dent I Greeks anti and no Romans ml S. S Yet hero thero seems to be no ito ant doubt that lint the tho orations of Cicero were committed to paper with withas wih s as ss much skill and rapidity as the time modem modern modern mod mod- ern em stenographer can cami boast Just what tho ho old system s stem of oC abbreviated a breu writing was which the time ancient Greeks called It I Is ImpossIble Impossible sible to say suy Is believed to have used It tt In iii tal taking noto of the time lec lec- lectures lectures tures Lures of Socrates i which nl would take It back Laick to lo the time filth fifth century before Christ This rums Is disputed l by uJ somo some authorities bu but Lut l there seems to be c no doubt alou about t tIK Its ts use In the time first century IK Tho Thin development of shorthand was hue due especially to Marcus Tulus Tiro who was a slave slave was brought up with who was some years ears his junior Freed reed he lie Cicero's secretary tad and nd In this capacity aided him greatly greaty In the famous fatuous trial or 6 U. U J. J j the stenographic rapidity of Tiro was mats at Us Its Is height In the time first century before Christ a ot of Cato according to LO 0 Plutarch was mas taken down dowl b by shorthand short- short hand liand reporters Early Karly In tim the lie third century Anno Dom Dormi- Domini DomIni ini iii Is found Cound the tIme term cram serelo raph stenographic character used by y the Greet orator Flavins Flavius Origen of Alexandria A 1 A. A D. D noted mated his hits sermons down n In shorthand and ind Socrates the time ecclesiastical historian historIan ian an of time the fourth century said that thai parts of ot tho time sermons of St. St St John Chry- Chry wore were preserved by the time same same process Tho Timo shorthand that hint tho they u used d was a 1 form orin of writing In iii which each word was vas represented tell by a special sl sign Jn The otters letters of the time alphabet ct with wih modifications leters lomis connected so as mis to admit a n great ton rapidity of execution formed tho time elements ole ole- men ments ts of oC these characters of who was a contemporary Cicero Vergil Vendi and Horce Horace mentions It ItIn I In Ii vor verse e He lie says ay In Ii shorthand skilled skied where marks comprise Whole hole wor words s a a sentence In iti a single letter lies leler oIes hand huml Us its aid mitch af affords af- af And nd while the lie willing Is fords Prevents tho time tongue to lo fix fx the lie falling failing Calling words words |
