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epitomes

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Epitome \E*pit"o*me\, n.; pl. Epitomes . [L., fr. Gr. ? a surface incision, also, and abridgment, fr. ? to cut into, cut short; 'epi` upon + te`mnein to cut: cf. F. ['e]pitome. See Tome .] A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced ...

Usage examples of epitomes.

In the Basle edition the name is written Erigimul, in the older Latin, Ergimul, and in the Italian epitomes, Ergiuul.

Seventy-one, their lives worn out with working, and he judged that he had been correct in citing them as epitomes of the black problem.

These statements are not epitomes of all that is said in the text, and for most of the central figures in the narrative are kept extremely brief.