The reply to this threat was the immediate resignation of their commissions by all the officers connected with the Tiro Nacional.
But I have chargedTiro to see to all this, whom I am sending to Rome for the express purpose.
This, to explain its being in another handwriting, I dictated to Tirowhile at dinner.
As to public affairs, about which you wish Tiro to write to you, I have written to you hitherto somewhat more carelessly than usual, because I knew that all events, small or great, were reported to Caesar.
But he said in a letter to Tiro that he had received nothing since the 1st of April--for that was the end of his financial year.
The natural tendency of a tiro will be to drive his slide away before his shoulders have begun to move.
Tiro was probably the first editor of his former master's letters.
Even the cab-driving tiro must sit for awhile on the box, and learn something of the streets, before he can ply for a fare.
Nevertheless, were I giving advice to a tiro in novel writing, I should recommend it.
In another letter he tells Tiro that he must revive his love of letters and learning.
They are twenty-seven in number, or rather twenty-six, as the sixteenth of the series contains the congratulations and thanks which Quintus Cicero addresses to his brother on receiving the news that Tiro has received his freedom.
Tiro was a slave, though afterwards set free by his master; but he was a man of great and varied accomplishments, and Cicero writes to him as he might to the very dearest of his friends.
If the fidelity of my Statius gives me so much pleasure[9], how valuable in Tiromust be this same good quality with the additional and even superior advantages of culture, wit, and politeness?
The letters to Tiro fill one of the sixteen books of "Letters to Friends.
Tiro is said to have written a life of his master.
As the old lady sealed up the jars, though they contained no wine, so must Tiro write letters, though he has nothing to say in them.
Page 105 Tiro has told me what you think about Caerellia: that it ill suits my dignity to be in debt, and that I should give a note of hand, "That you should fear the one and hold the other safe!
For I was anxious because Tiro had said you looked to him rather flushed.
There is no collection of my letters, but Tiro has about seventy, and some can be got from you.
I am expecting you at Tusculum, especially as you told Tiro you were coming at once, adding that you thought it necessary.
As soon asTiro returns home, I am thinking of going to Tusculum.
Tiro says you disapprove of Brundisium now, and indeed says something about soldiers.
But I have given Tiro orders about this, and am sending him to Rome on purpose.
The result of this is, that, however little a tiro may know of rowing, he will, in a day or two, get more pace on a slide than if he adhered to a fixed seat.
The tiro in oarsmanship requires instruction from the outset; the sooner he is taught, the more likely is he to become proficient.
We do not for this reason say that every tiro should be put to take lessons of watermanship in sculling-boats and light pairs: far from it.
Thus Indians are shot at in sport to make them run or as exercise in tiro al blanco or target practice, and burnt by pouring petroleum over them and setting it on fire in order to watch their agonies.
By way of amusement these employees of the company often enjoy a little tiro al blanco, or target-shooting, the target being little Indian children whose parents have been murdered.
You will bear me witness that I have often warned you that the cruelty with which Tiro exercised his authority would lead to difficulties, if not to violence and murder.
On another occasion he jestingly charges Tiro with wishing to have his own letters included in the "volumes" (Fam.
These commentarii were published by his freedman Tiro and are quoted by Asconius (ad Orat.
It is obvious that Tiro thought the passage compromising and struck it out.
Porque vn tiro llevo toda vna hilera, e hico abrir el Escuadron, i los Capitanes pusieron gran diligencia en hacerlo cerrar, amenacando de muerte a los Soldados, con las Espadas desenvainadas, i se cerro.
Tiro meant to kill you, and would most likely have succeeded had not Napsus first tripped him and then killed him.
Tiro has been dealt with as he deserved, as any similar fool deserves.
Every partisan of the outlaws blames you for their discomfiture, and regards you as a detestable traitor, many a one is looking for such a chance at you as Tiro thought he saw.
It was only necessary that he should send them forth to scribes, leaving either to himself or to some faithful Tiro the subsequent duty of rearrangement.
Brundisium is the usual way, but he has been told by Tiro that there are soldiers in the town.
Tiro was taken ill, and Cicero was obliged to leave him at Patræ, in Greece.
Cicero himself writes various letters to various persons, in order to secure that attention which Tiro could not have insured unless so assisted.
In the same letter Cicero tells us that Tiro had collected about seventy of his letters with a view to publication.
The language here is so pretty that I am tempted to think that Tiro must have had a hand in it.
He writes to Tiro quite as he might have written to a younger Atticus, and speaks to him of Atticus with all the familiarity of confirmed friendship.
But his affection for Tiro is very warm, and his little solicitudes for the man whom he leaves are charming.
Tiro has been made a freedman, and has bought a farm for himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tiro" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
