EPITOME (Gr. lircroui, from isrLTEµveW, to cut

See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

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 representation of a larger thing, concrete or abstract, reproduced in miniature . Thus St Mark's was called by Ruskin the " epitome of Venice," as it embraces examples of all the periods of architecture from the loth to the 19th centuries .