and lxx.
[148] De Lege Agraria, ii., 2: "Meis comitiis non tabellam, vindicem tacitae libertatis, sed vocem vivam prae vobis, indicem vestrarum erga me voluntatum ac studiorum tulistis.

Itaque me * * * una voce universus populus Romanus consulem declaravit." [149] Sall., Conj.

Catilinaria, xxi.: "Petere consulatum C.Antonium, quem sibi collegam fore speraret, hominem et familiarem, et omnibus necessitudinibus circumventum." Sallust would no doubt have put anything into Catiline's mouth which would suit his own purpose; but it was necessary for his purpose that he should confine himself to credibilities.
[150] 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.
[151]Ad Att., ii., 1.