MARK Copy link • MARK 1. s. A sign, token, signum (general term): significatio (abstraction, intimation); indicium (which makes us acquainted with a thing otherwise unknown): nota (whereby one thing is distinguished from another): vestigium (a trace; sometimes with indicium). A brand-mark, stigma: a mark of love, favor, signum amoris, voluntatis: ☞ In the phrase “it is the mark of,” mark is usually omitted; e.g., imbecilli animi est superstitio, the mark of a weak mind (Cic.). That toward which anything is directed, scopus (at which a missile is aimed): meta (toward which one goes or tends). To hit the mark, scopum ferire: to miss the mark, aberrare a scopo, a meta; metam non ferire; scopum non attingere. A certain weight, selibra. A certain coin, *nummus qui mark dicitur. 2. v. To set a mark on, notare: denotare: signare: designare (in order to distinguish or make known): notam imponere alicui rei: notam apponere alicui rei or ad aliquid: notā insignire. To mark several passages in a letter with red, litteras miniatulā cerā (after the Roman manner) or rubricā (after our manner) pluribus locis notare (Vid: Cic., Att., 15, 14, extr.): to mark anything suspicious in a book, obelum apponere ad aliquid (Isidorus, 1, 20, 4): to mark out (a field, etc.), terminare agrum ab alio, metare; metari; dimetare (into divisions): to mark out for destruction, notare et designare oculis aliquem ad caedem. To note, not to forget, memoria comprehendere, complecti (to charge one’s memory with): memoriae mandare, tradere; memoriae infigere (to commit to memory; the latter, to impress upon the memory): (in) memoria custodire, memoriam alicujus rei retinere (to keep in the memory): demittere in pectus or in pectus animumque, or (of several) in pectora animosque; animo percipere; animo infigere; percipere animo atque memoria custodire: I have well marked that speech, oratio in animo insedit; oratio in memoria mea penitus insedit. To heed, animurn attendere, intendere, advertere; animo adesse (general term); aures erigere animumque attendere, also simply erigi or se erigere (of hearers). Mark! adestote animis, erigite mentes auresque vestras et me dicentem attendite! (says Cic. when about to speak.