"epitomist" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1972, W. Den Boer, Some Minor Roman Historians, page 5",
          "text": "If his flock did any reading at all, they would be more likely to read the epitomists rather than the authors whom we consider first-rate such as Livy, Sallust or Tacitus.",
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        "One who makes an epitome; one who abridges; an epitomizer."
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          "epitomizer",
          "epitomizer"
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  "word": "epitomist"
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        "One who makes an epitome; one who abridges; an epitomizer."
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