epitomai

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: ĕpĭʹtəmī, IPA: /ɛˈpɪtəmaɪ/, X-SAMPA: /E"pIt@maI/

Noun

epitomai

1. Plural form of epitome
   • 1997: Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, volume 33, page 204 (Kossuth Lajos Tudományegyetem Kiadói Bizottsága)

     Contemporary philology has had a growing interest in the period and in the epitomai again, which has been proved by several colloquiums, monographs on the subject.

   • 2000: Mary Depew and Dirk Obbink, Matrices of Genre: Authors, Canons, and Society, page 10 (Harvard University Press; ISBN 0674003381, 9780674003385)

     Sluiter examines a tension inherent in such scholarly works as lexica, scholia, epitomai, and commentaries: although the very titles of these works claim no more than secondary status, their authors engage nonetheless in a rhetoric of self-legitimation.