The amanuensis Tiro devised a shorthand to take down these texts, which discuss the author's frustration with his cruel brother Quintus.
One of these texts describes bathing on the second day of the Saturnalia with a "perilous" guest of whom it says, "once was enough." Another of these texts uses the ironic formula "laudandum, ornandum, tollendum," where "tollendum" means both "immortalized" and "killed off." Johann and Wendelin (VEN-deh-lin) of Speyer introduced the printing press to Venice with an edition of these works in 1469. In 1345, Petrarch's rediscovery of these texts in a Verona library helped revive Italian interest in classical literature. The amanuensis Tiro devised a shorthand to take down these texts, which discuss the author's frustration with his cruel brother Quintus. Written in Greek-in lected Latin, these texts address the author's friend Atticus on such issues as the assassination of Caesar, the ascent of Antony, and the death of Tullia. For 10 points, name this set of epistles authored by the greatest speaker of ancient Rome.
One of these texts describes bathing on the second day of the Saturnalia with a "perilous" guest of whom it says, "once was enough."
Cicero's letters [or the Epistulae ad Familares; or Epistulae ad Atticum; or the letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero]