Examples
Examples of epitomes providing the only record of now lost works include:
- John Xiphilinus's precis of the missing portions of Cassius Dio's Roman History
- Justin's abridged version of the Philippic History by Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus, one of the main sources for the life of Alexander the Great
- The epitome of Book IV of the Pseudo-Apollodorus's Bibliotheca, a comprehensive encyclopedia of Greek mythology
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