Tiro also seems to have been a relatively famous writer himself,
though his works have been lost to history.
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Tiro also is believed to have been the one to
compile Cicero's various works and to see them published after Cicero died.
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Despite poor health at various times, Tiro lived to the ripe old age of 99 years old
and is thought to have died in 4 BC.
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Tiro developed a stenographic shorthand system that also
included a shorthand version of“et”, which preceded the first known usage of the ampersand by about 100-200 years.
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However, Tiro's symbol was not the combination of“et”,
as the ampersand symbol is, and was different in form than the ampersand symbol, being closer to a modern day 7 or, more aptly, was a backwards capital gamma:.