• An epitome (/ɪˈpɪtəmiː/; Greek: ἐπιτομή, from ἐπιτέμνειν epitemnein meaning "to cut short") is a summary or miniature form, or an instance that represents...
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  • Look up epitome in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An epitome is a summary or miniature form. Epitome may also refer to: Epitome (film), a 1953 Japanese...
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  • The Metz Epitome is a late antique summary of earlier historical fragments and covers the conquests of Alexander the Great between Hyrcania and northwest...
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  • The Epitome de Caesaribus is a 5th-century Latin historical work based on the Liber de Caesaribus (also known as Historiae abbreviatae) by Aurelius Victor...
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    to represent Trogus' time, and not his own. Justin was the author of an epitome of Trogus' expansive Liber Historiarum Philippicarum, or Philippic Histories...
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  • Epitome Pictures Inc. (later known as DHX Studios Toronto) was a Canadian film and television production company based in Toronto, Ontario. Founded by...
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  • An epitome, in data processing, is a condensed digital representation of the essential statistical properties of ordered datasets such as matrices that...
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    said that he has "studied Luther for such a long time because he was the epitome of perfect tone." On his influence, John Legend has said, "All us people...
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    8.33.4 Apollodorus, Epitome 3.27. Apollodorus, Epitome 3.26. Apollodorus, Epitome 3.28. Herodotus 4.145.3. Apollodorus, Epitome 3.29. Pausanias 4.2.7...
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    Komnenos (r. 1118–1143), although this is still a possibility. Zonaras' Epitome served as the basis of Constantine Manasses' chronicle, which was commissioned...
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  • Constantinople, a well-known preacher (Migne, Patrologia Graeca, cxx.). The epitome of Dio was prepared by order of Michael Parapinaces (1071–1078), but is...
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    The Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae is an astronomy book on the heliocentric system published by Johannes Kepler in the period 1618 to 1621. The first...
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  • Epitome of Torture is the fourteenth album by the German thrash metal band Sodom. The album debuted on the Billboard Heatseakers Chart at 25, their highest...
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    Cicero, quoted by Seneca the Elder. Livy was abridged, in antiquity, to an epitome, which survives for Book 1, but was itself abridged in the fourth century...
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    include Arrian (Anabasis Alexandri 2.3), Quintus Curtius (3.1.14), Justin's epitome of Pompeius Trogus (11.7.3), and Aelian's De Natura Animalium 13.1. Alexander...
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  • published a small two-part geographical work titled A Sketch of Geography in Epitome (τῆς γεωγραφίας ὑποτυπώσεις ἐν ἐπιτομῇ), addressed to his pupil Philon...
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    frequently drawn comparisons to Sachin Tendulkar, whom he regarded as the epitome of excellence in the sport of cricket. Dubbed as Tendulkar's "successor"...
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    Origines (abbreviated Orig.). This encyclopedia—the first such Christian epitome—formed a huge compilation of 448 chapters in 20 books based on hundreds...
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    Howard's performance received critical acclaim; Honeycutt lauded her as "the epitome of sensual, feline cunning". Howard appeared in Clint Eastwood's Hereafter...
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    accent has become his calling card." In 2015 The Times called Caine "the epitome of Sixties cool in his first outing as the secret agent Harry Palmer"....
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  • work survives, called the Epitome Catasterismorum, by an unknown author sometimes referred to as pseudo-Eratosthenes. The Epitome records the mature and...
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  • faith (called a confession, creed, or "symbol") that, in its two parts (Epitome and Solid Declaration), makes up the final section of the Lutheran Corpus...
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    were included, alongside their side of the split single with Worship, The Epitome of Gods and Men Alike, on the double CD The Dawning of Mournful Hymns released...
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    Cassius Dio, LIX.16. Suet. Calig., 30. Cassius Dio, (in John Xiphilinus' epitome), 59, 26, 3. Barrett 2015, pp. 251–252. Winterling 2011, pp. 98–100. Winterling...
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    Luxembourgish history and folklore and is considered by many historians the epitome of chivalry in medieval times. He is also known for having founded the...
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  • The Epitome of Hyperbole is a 2008 Comedy Central Presents special featuring comedian Brian Regan. It first aired on September 6, 2008. An extended DVD...
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    White, Jessica (June 7, 2022). "SNL's 'Massive Head Wound Harry' Is the Epitome of '90s Comedy". NBC. Retrieved January 16, 2025. @Demsocialists (November...
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    describing it as "mechanical". However, Rediff.com considered Chopra to be an "epitome of calm intelligence, who underplayed her role to perfection". Later that...
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    historica 4.71.2 Hesiod, Theogony 285 Hard 2004, p. 554; Apollodorus, Epitome 1.20 Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.747–2.400; Hyginus, De astronomia 2.42.2; Nonnus...
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    Apollodorus, Epitome 7.24 Hesiod, Theogony 1011 See Hesiod, Theogony 1019, Sir James George Frazer in his notes to Apollodorus, Epitome 7.24, says that...
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