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EPITOME (Gr. IVITOHII, from brtrtnvtiv, to cut short), an abridgment, abstract or summary giving the salient points of a book, law case, &c., a short and concise account of any particular subject or event. By transference epitome is also used to express the re ...

... syntax, and an onomaticon (vocabulary), described as a wonderful production. An epitome of the great work of Herodian on general prosody in twenty books, wrongly attributed to Arcadius, is probably the work of Theodosius of Alexandria or a grammarian named Ari ...

... termed alveoli. The typical secretory cells of the glands are found lining the EPITOME— EPODE terminal portions of the ramifications and extend upwards to varying degrees. Thus in a typical acinous gland the cells are restricted to the final alveoli. The rema ...

... cle in two books (c. 303; later continued down to 325), the first containing an epitome of universal history, the second chronological tables exhibiting in parallel columns the royal succession in different nations, and accompanied by notes marking the dates o ...

... own dogmatic position. It is painful, therefore, to find him in his subsequent Epitome classing Nestorius as a heretic, and speaking of him with the utmost hostility. Some of Theodoret's dogmatic works are no longer extant: of his five books U(pl ivavflpwir^o ...

... iness of Venetian tracery. The ducal palace, like St Mark's, is a symbol and an epitome of the race which evolved it. Soon after the concentration The at Rialto the doge Angelo Particiaco began an official aacal residence for the head of the state. It was prob ...