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epitome

epitome · f

an abridgment

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Where it lives

Letters to Atticus 2 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 6 · 0.15/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ĕpĭtŏmē — Lewis & Short

ĕpĭtŏmē (ĕpĭtŏma, ēs, f., = e)pitomh/,

nom.Cic. Att. 12, 5, 3),

I an abridgment, epitome, Cic. Att. 12, 5, 3; 13, 8.—In plur., Col. 1, 1, 10: librum in epitomen cogere, Aus. Ep. 19 al.

In the wild

epitomen Cicero, Letters to Atticus 13.8.1
epitoma Cicero, Letters to Atticus 12.5B.1
epitomas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.17.p56
epitomas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.15.p51
epitomas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.18.p89
epitomis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.1.10

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. epitome (scan p. 223; entry #3466).

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