"To make him copious is to alter his character; and to translate him line for line is impossible, because the Latin is naturally a more succinct language than either the Italian, Spanish, French, or even than the English, which, by reason of its monosyllables, is far the most compendious of them.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
For a long time just such a compendious volume, with just such concisely and authoritatively written articles, has been needed....
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou
But a general proposition is not merely a compendious form for recording and preserving in the memory a number of particular facts, all of which have been observed.
"A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)"
John Stuart Mill