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You may suppose that the owner called his slave after the poet Tibullus; I don’t know.

So we have Tibullus the freedman of Venustus.

Then a formula—‘scripsi et dico me’—so the man’s name is Tibullus, his status is the freedman of Venustus, and he’s saying, ‘I write and I say.’

“Here’s the word ‘Tibullus’—he’s the only Tibullus I can find.

"I, Tibullus, the freedman of Venustus have written and say that I owe Gratus, the freedman of Spurius, 105 denarii from the price of merchandise which has been sold and delivered…"