Brewer's: Tironian Sign

(The). The symbol (&) for “and” or the Latin et. Said to have been invented by Tullius Tiro, Cicero's freed-man. (See Marks In Grammar.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Tiryns
Tirled
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