Note 3 — CICERO AGAINST CATILINE
Reading edition
: notat et designat: a metaphor from the marking of the animals appointed for sacrifice. Cicero often uses synonymous words to impress the idea more strongly: “he marks and stamps each one of us for slaughter:” cp. Leg. Man. 3, 7. Cives Romanes necandos trucidandosque denotavit.