We may fancy the Titan of the pen and the tea-table, in his snuffy habit as he lived and as photographed by Boswell, Mrs. Thrale, Fanny Burney, and their epitomizer Macaulay, diving under the turnpike and emerging among the osiers and water-rats to offer his orisons at the shrine of Shakespeare. ❋ Various (N/A)
Really, however, this is not the true Dio at all, but merely his shadow, seized and distorted to satisfy the ideas of his epitomizer, the monk Xiphilinus, who was separated from him by a thousand years in the flesh and another thousand in the spirit. ❋ Cassius Dio (N/A)
The name of the poet is lost, and the epitomizer has doubtless made a mistake. ❋ Thomas Ross Mills (N/A)
Although Iulius Paris, the epitomizer of Valerius, speaks of ten books, only nine are extant, and it may be doubted whether there ever was a tenth. ❋ Thomas Ross Mills (N/A)
Some recent Catholic scholars have thought that errors could also be admitted in the book itself without casting any discredit on the epitomizer, inasmuch as the latter declines to assume responsibility for the exact truth of all its contents. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The book itself begins with an elaborate preface (ii, 20-33) in which the author after mentioning that his work is an epitome of the larger history in five books of Jason of Cyrene states his motive in writing the book, and comments on the respective duties of the historian and of the epitomizer. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The final epitomizer of this earlier work probably lived not long after 50 B.C. ❋ Charles Foster Kent (1896)
Shakespeare's plays upon the German stage but by epitomizing the epitomizer? ❋ Kuno Francke (1892)
Catholic Middle Age, the epitomizer of mediaeval thought. ❋ Unknown (1886)
The extract is given here to illustrate the character of the work of the epitomizer who prepared the text of the Journal as it has come down to us. ❋ Various (1884)
The epitomizer however, missing the point of his Author, -- besides enumerating all the appearances of our Saviour which S. Luke anywhere records, -- is further convicted of having injudiciously invented the negative statement about S. Mark's Gospel which is occasioning us all this trouble. ❋ 1813-1888 (1871)
The epitomizer would not have spoken of "many kings" as intervening between ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)
But the words of the epitomizer of Trogus, placed at the head of this chapter, forbid the acceptance of this theory. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)
The expression used by the epitomizer of Trogus, and a few words dropped by Plutarch, render it probable that about this time there were contentions between various members of the Arsacid family which issued in actual civil war. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)
Brucker, it would seem, has gone deeply into these repositories of their ethics, and Enfield his epitomizer, concludes in these words. ❋ Thomas Jefferson (1784)
Abulpharagius, the historian of the Huns has consulted Abulfeda, and his epitomizer Benschounah, a Chronicle of the Caliphs, by Abulmahasen of ❋ Edward Gibbon (1765)
For Mark frequently deviates from Matthew in the order of time, in his arrangement of facts; and he adds many things not related by the other evangelists; neither of which a mere epitomizer would probably have done. ❋ Bibleteacher.org (2009)
Abulpharagius, the historian of the Huns has consulted Abulfeda, and his epitomizer Benschounah, a Chronicle of the Caliphs, by ❋ Unknown (1206)
The epitomizer however, missing the point of his Author, — besides enumerating _all_ the appearances of our S.VIOUR which S. Luke anywhere records, — is further convicted of having injudiciously _invented_ the negative statement about S. Mark’s Gospel which is occasioning us all this trouble. ❋ John William Burgon (1850)
