The symbol (&) for “and” or the Latin et. Said to have been invented by Tullius Tiro, Cicero’s freed-man. (See Marks in Grammar.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.