Note 12 — CICERO AGAINST CATILINE
Reading edition
: discripsisti: discribo is used where the fundamental notion is to map out, plan, arrange, put in order, as distribuere, dividere, disponere: describo is to write down, to compose. Sallust (Cat. C. 43) says that the conspirators were to fire twelve (Plutarch says a hundred) parts of the city at one and the same time. For discripsisti: cf. Cic. Pro Sulla, 8: Tam Catilina dies exurendi tum caeteris manendi conditio, tum discriptio totam per orbem caedis atque incendiorum constituta est.