Note 150 — Chapter VIII
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Cicero himself tells us that many short-hand writers were sent by him—"Plures librarii," as he calls them—to take down the words of the Agrarian law which Rullus proposed. De Lege Agra., ii., 5. Pliny, Quintilian, and Martial speak of these men as Notarii. Martial explains the nature of their business:
"Currant verba licet, manus est velocior illis; Nondum lingua suum, dextra peregit opus."—xiv., 208.