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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 707 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EPITOME (Gr. lircroui, from isrLTEµveW, to cut See also:short) , an abridgment, abstract or See also:summary giving the salient points of a See also:book, See also:law See also:case, &c., a short and concise See also:account of any particular subject or event. By transference epitome is also used to See also:express the See also:representation of a larger thing, See also:concrete or abstract, reproduced in See also:miniature. Thus St See also:Mark's was called by See also:Ruskin the " epitome of See also:Venice," as it embraces examples of all the periods of See also:architecture from the loth to the 19th centuries.

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