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Epistle
(2,481 words)
[German version] A. Term, Terminology, Origins A letter is a written message to an absent recipient. The Greek
epistolḗ (ἐπιστολή) is the verbal noun for ἐπιστέλλειν;
epistéllein, ‘to give a message (to a messenger)’ or ‘to send a written or oral message (to s.o.)’;
epistolḗ means ‘a sent message’, which in earlier times could also include an oral message. Synonyms:
grámmata (γράμματα), literally ‘piece of writing’, Lat.
epistula, litterae. Wherever script was developed, writing letters was one of its first applications. For that reason, communication by writing…
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Tiro
(713 words)
[German version] [1] T., M. Tullius Cicero's secretary, 1st cent. BC Born in the house of Cicero's (= Cic.) grandfather in Arpinum as son of a prisoner of war, therefore as a slave, in 103 BC (according to [3] in 80 BC). T. was made a freedman by his master Cic., who was not much older than he, only in 53 (cf. Cic. Fam. 16,16,1). He was a valuable help to his master in all possible ways, as the latter repeatedly emphasized (for instance, in Cic. Fam. 16,4,3 in 50 BC). T. accompanied Cic. to Cilicia in 51, …
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Titianus
(300 words)
[German version] [1] Iulius T. Tutor of princes, teacher of rhetoric, late 2nd cent. Active probably in the late 2nd cent. AD as a tutor of princes and later in Vesontio (modern Besançon) and Lugdunum (modern Lyon) as a teacher of rhetoric, T. was the author of numerous (non-surviving) works. He was famous for his prose '
Letters of Famous Women' written on the model of Ovidius'
Heroides (on the choice of the letters of Cicero as a stylistic model: Sid. Apoll. Epist. 1,1,2). Furthermore, there is evidence of a collection of
themata from Vergil for teaching rhetoric, a prose paraphrase of Aesop's Fables and a
chorographia (place descript…
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