"Tiro" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ability, and a writer of some note, but a worthless and profligate fellow. Cicero peremptorily ordered his son to dismiss him; and the young man seems to have obeyed and reformed. We may hope at least that the repentance which he expresses for his misdoings in a letter to Tiro, his father's freedman, was genuine. This is his picture of his life in the days of repentance and soberness: "I am on terms of the closest intimacy with Cratippus, living with him more as a son than as a pupil. Not only do I hear ...
— Roman life in the days of Cicero • Alfred J[ohn] Church
... some touches introduced from collateral sources. In this, as in many other massages of his Lives, the Greek biographer has evidently aimed at creating an effect, and though he seems to have been mainly guided by the genuine narrative of Tiro, Cicero's beloved freedman, we may suspect him of having embellished it to furnish a striking termination to one of his favorite sketches. Nevertheless the narrative is mainly confirmed by a fragment of Livy's history, which has fortunately been preserved. The Roman ...
— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various
... a cross drawn at the entrance of a road, the long part or stem of it pointing down that particular road, and he may have thought nothing of it, or have supposed that some sauntering individual like himself had made the mark with his stick: not so, courteous gorgio; ley tiro solloholomus opre lesti, you may take your oath upon it that it was drawn by a Gypsy finger, for that mark is another of the Rommany trails; there is no mistake in this. Once in the south of France, when I was weary, hungry, and penniless, ...
— The Pocket George Borrow • George Borrow
... brishin, shil, la baval: Sa’o divés tu murshkinés pīrdán: Ako kino ’vesa, rat avéla, Chēros sī te kesa tiro tan. ...
— Old Familiar Faces • Theodore Watts-Dunton
... such accumulated blows; it is so clear, so hard, so coruscating with images, that it is impossible to escape its effect. The paragraph is one never to be forgotten, and not easy to be refuted or qualified. No intelligent tiro in history can read that page without being set a-thinking, without feeling that he has a formidable problem to solve. Tens of thousands of young minds must have had that deeply-coloured picture of Rome visibly before ...
— Studies in Early Victorian Literature • Frederic Harrison
... debts. These were alleged as the fairest reasons for the divorce. But Terentia, who denied them all, had the most unmistakable defense furnished her by her husband himself, who not long after married a young maiden for the love of her beauty, as Terentia upbraided him; or as Tiro, his emancipated slave, has written, for her riches, to discharge his debts. For the young woman was very rich, and Cicero had the custody of her estate, being left guardian in trust; and being indebted many myriads ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough
... kuragxigxinta elparoli tiujn cxi vortojn. Tiro per stileto, kiu ne postulus ripetadon, tuj estus paginta tiun insulton. Mateo tamen nur metis la manon al la frunto, kiel viro premegita. Fortunato estis enirinta en la domon, kiam li vidis sian patron alvenantan. Li baldaux reaperis kun taso da lakto, kiun li prezentis ...
— The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 5 • Various |
