Note 4 — CICERO AGAINST CATILINE
Reading edition
: aquilam: the same that Marius carried in his Cimbric war. Catiline fell beside it at Pistoria (Gall. Cat. C. 59). A silver eagle with extended wings, and on the top of a spear was the ensign of the whole legion. The signa were the standards of the manipuli and the vexillum is the standard of the cavalry.