Pericopae

( /pəˈrɪkəpiː/; Greek περικοπή, "a cutting-out")

A pericope in rhetoric is a set of verses that forms one coherent unit or thought, thus forming a short passage suitable for public reading from a text, now usually of sacred scripture.

Pericopae is the studio nomenclature for Samuel N. Ortiz, an audio visual artist living and working in southcentral Pennsylvania.