See what was done in this respect in Livy, xlv; the Epitome of Livy, lix; Aulus Gellius, i. 6; Valerius Maximus, ii. It is in Aulus Gellius, i. See what I have said in Book v. C?sar, after the Civil War, having made a survey of the Roman citizens, found there were no more than one hundred and fifty thousand heads of families. -- Florus, Epitome of Livy, dec. See Dio, xliii., and Xiphilinus in August. Dio, lib.英文原著 · 《The Spirit of Laws》
{36} Justinus, who lived in the second century, made an epitome of the history of the Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, Macedonian, and Roman Empires, from Trogus Pompeius, who lived in the time of Augustus.英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
The very knitted woolen petticoat that she wears beneath a skirt made of an old gown, with the wadding protruding through the rents in the material, is a sort of epitome of the sitting-room, the dining-room, and the little garden; it discovers the cook, it foreshadows the lodgers--the picture of the house is completed by the portrait of its mistress.英文原著 · 《Father Goriot》
Fragment #1 -- Photius, Epitome of the Chrestomathy of Proclus: The Epic Cycle begins with the fabled union of Heaven and Earth, by which they make three hundred-handed sons and three Cyclopes to be born to him.英文原著 · 《Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica》
Saint Patrick resembled Moses in four particulars. The angel spoke to him in the burning bush. He fasted forty days and forty nights upon the mountain. He attained the period of one hundred and twenty years. No one knows his sepulchre, nor where he was buried; sixteen[1] years he was in captivity. In his twenty-fifth year, he was consecrated bishop by Saint Matheus,[2] and he was eighty-five years the apostle of the Irish. It might be profitable to treat more at large of the life of this saint, but it is now time to conclude this epitome of his labours.[3] [1] V.R. Fifteen.英文原著 · 《History Of The Britons》
God, back in the day, this machine was the epitome of power.美剧 · 《Billions》