(καλός beauty, γράφω I write) ancienly denoted a copyist or scrivener, who transcribed fair and at length the notes or minutes taken by the notaries. The minutes of acts, &c., were always taken in a kind of short-hand, by which means the notarii (the συγγραφεῖς and ταχυγράφοι of the Greeks) were enabled to keep pace with a speaker, or person who dictated. These notes were copied out at length by the calligraphi.