What's the difference between cicero and tironian?
Cicero
Definition:
(n.) Pica type; -- so called by French printers.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the eminent biologist TH Huxley met Gladstone for the first time in 1877, in the company of Darwin , he exclaimed afterwards: “Why, put him in the middle of a moor, with nothing in the world but his shirt, and you could not prevent him being anything he liked.” This is my view of Cicero: drop him into Westminster or Washington or any other political culture and he would instantly begin clambering to the top.
(2) I was reading Roman Life In The Days Of Cicero, which he found interesting, but we could as soon be talking about Peter Cook or Spike Milligan .
(3) But when recent observations about the atmospheric height of soot particles were used, a model simulation by the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo (Cicero), published in the journal Nature Communications , found that its warming impacts were roughly halved.
(4) Had the German Democratic Republic never collapsed, Merkel would have retired this week, as Left party politician Stefan Liebich points out in a surprisingly approving piece on her legacy in political magazine Cicero .
(5) Plato, Aristotle and Chrysippus, the Hippocratic authors and Erasistratus in the testimony of Aulus Gellius, Plutarch and indirectly also of Cicero, and then Galen and Macrobius have a special place in the development of this topic.
(6) He recalls discussing Cicero, the Alhambra, Aids, Buddhism and everything else under the sun with the nephew who loved Latin and basketball.
(7) In the end, I settled on having his career related by his long-term, and long-suffering, secretary, Tiro: another real historical figure who wrote a biography of Cicero that is, fortunately for my purposes, lost.
(8) Lord Beaverbrook, Daniel Defoe and even Cicero were brought before the Leveson inquiry by the UK's polymath-in-chief Michael Gove.
(9) In the 'manual' position and with the soda-lime canister and the volumeter (or flow-sensor) included, the following leak rates were determined: Dräger Cicero, 5.0 ml min-1; Dräger Sulla, 22.8 ml min-1; Dräger AV1, 7.7 ml min-1; Gambro Engström Elsa, 33.4 ml min-1; Megamed 700A, 11.5 ml min-1; Ohmeda Modulus II Plus, less than 0.1 ml min-1; Siemens Ventilator 710, 0.3 ml min-1; Siemens Servo Ventilator 900D with circle system 985, 9.6 ml min-1; Megamed 077, 47.5 ml min-1.
(10) The dry and heated gases of the CICERO are not acceptable in the daily practice of paediatric anaesthesia.
(11) In his new book The Writing on the Wall, Tom Standage has sketched a history of the first 2,000 years of social media – from the messaging network that kept intellectuals such as Cicero abreast of public affairs at the dawn of the Roman empire to Twitter and Facebook – attempting to show how the study of what he calls "really old" media (based on the capillary distribution of information from person to person, as opposed to the mass model of newspapers and television) can assist in understanding not just digital media but also the debates that surround them, for instance concerning their political impact.
(12) He lists his recreations in Who's Who as food, wine, and the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero.
(13) At FGF 3 litre min-1, FGU was: Gambro Engström Elsa 97.8%, Siemens Servo Ventilator 900 D with circle system 96.1%, Dräger Cicero 93.4%, Ohmeda Modulus II Plus 93.1%, Dräger 8 ISO 92.3%, Dräger AV1 87.6%, Megamed 700A 77.0% and Siemens Ventilator 710 74.1%.
(14) The mnemonics, collectively known as the Ancient Art of Memory, were discovered in 447 BC by a Greek poet, Simonides, and were adequately described by Cicero, Quintilian, and Pliny.
(15) But if there's a train there, I take off down Cicero Avenue and watch those crossings.
(16) He would soon base the 1970 novel Arfur: Teenage Pinball Queen in his fictionalised New Orleans, now renamed Moriarty (“the foremost city of the nation, a compound of refinement and squalor, grace and depravity”), where there were now beautifully named quarters of Cohn’s own making – Jitney, Cicero and Savoy, “the wealthy St Jude and the shanty Canrush”.
(17) As predecessor of the absolute refusal of suicide in the Christian era can be mentioned Cicero, who had regarded suicide in a special paper on the old age as the desertion without order of the commander-in-chief.
(18) In a speech in the lawcourts, Cicero referred disparagingly to her colourfully louche life of affairs, adulteries, beach parties, banquets and drinking sessions.
(19) Well known for his wit …Cicero addressing the Roman senate.
(20) It’s pouring rain by the time the buses arrive at the second McDonald’s location in west suburban Cicero, outside of Chicago.
Tironian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.