Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An epitomizer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An epitomist.
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- noun An
epitomist
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Examples
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This statement is freely taken for granted three centuries afterwards by Urne in the first edition of the book (1514), but is not traced further back than an epitomator, who wrote more than 200 years after Saxo's death.
The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo
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The epitomator of Livy (lxvii.) says in carcere necatus est.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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The epitomator of Livy (lix.) speaks of him as "Eumenis filius".
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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The loss of Livy's second decade cannot of itself be an explanation; such an event is just what an epitomator would have seized on, yet there is no trace of it in the surviving epitomes, nor in any other author who may have had Livy before him.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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"Grammaticus" ever since the epitomator of 1431 headed his compilation with the words, "A certain notable man of letters (" grammaticus "), a
The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo
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