• NOTE

1. v. notare (to put down in writing; also, to observe as remarkable; but in the latter sense not till after Augustus: there is no authority for its use in the sense of “to make an explanatory observation “): annotare (to mark down in writing; then, especially, to make a corrective or explanatory remark, although it occurs thus for the first time after Augustus; Vid: Plin., Ep., 9, 26, 5, visus es mihi in scriptis meis annotare quaedam ut tumida, quae ego sublimia arbitrabar; Quint., 1, 14, 7, de quibus in orthographia pauca annotabo: (☞ Admonere and animadvertere in this sense would be quite wrong).

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• Mark, nota; signum; insigne; indicium [SYN. in MARK, Vid:] : Note of admiration, signum exclamationis (grammatical).
• Annotation, annotatio (technical term of post-Augustan, grammarians): *scholion (an explanatory note: σχόλιον, Graec. in Cic., Att., 16, 7, 3): explicatio; interpretatio. [☞ Nota, PROP., the censor’s mark, i. e., censure, is defended by Hand and Weber as having been long used as technical term.] To write a few notes, pauca annotare (de aliqua re); on a book, commentari librum (Suet., Gram., 2); commentaria in librum componere (Gell., 2, 6, init.). Note-Latin, *vocabula Latina quibus grammatici in annotationibus scribendis utuntur.
• In music, *soni or vocis signum; *nota musica (Kraft): notes, modi musici (musical pieces): to sing from notes, *ex libello canere (not from the memory): *ab oculo canere (at sight, after Petronius, 75, 4).
• Billet, epistolium (but only Catullus, 66 or 68, 2): epistola pusilla: literulae
• NOTE OF HAND, chirographum (to be distinguished from syngrapha = a deed drawn up as a formal contract, and signed by both parties): to lend money on a note of hand, *chirographo exhibito pecuniam alicui credere: to borrow money on a note of hand, *per chirographum pecuniam mutuam sumere: to give a note of hand, chirographum exhibere (Vid: Gell., 14, 2, chirographi exhibitio): to give a note of hand for anything, chirographo cavere de re (Suet., Cal., 12).