An inscription on a monument, in honor or memory of the dead. The epitaphs of the present day are crammed with fulsome compliments never merited. Can you look forward to the honor of a decorated coffin, a splendid funeral, a towering monument--it may be a lying epitaph.

An eulogy, in prose or verse, composed without any intent to be engraven on a monument, as that on Alexander: . “Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis.” .