Aeschylus had written his own epitaph commemorating his life as a warrior fighting for Athens against Persia, without any mention of his success as a playwright, and Sophocles was celebrated by his contemporaries for his social gifts and contributions to public life as a state official, but there are no records of Euripides's public life except as a dramatisthe could well have been " a brooding and bookish recluse ".

Newton's epitaph on a plaque in St. Mary Woolnoth, written by Newton himself, bears these words:

An epitaph written by Charlemagne in verse, in which he styles Adrian " father ", is still to be seen at the door of the Vatican basilica.

On her tombstone is written: " She did it the hard way ", an epitaph that she mentioned in her memoir Mother Goddam as having been suggested to her by Joseph L. Mankiewicz shortly after they had filmed All About Eve.

There is a memorial to him inside the church with an epitaph written by his friend, William Wordsworth.

When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

An earlier version of the speech was published in 1818, in a biography on Sarah Curran's father John, emphasising that Emmet's epitaph would be written on the vindication of his character, and not specifically when Ireland took its place as a nation.

Then shall my character be vindicated ; then may my epitaph be written.

The last sentence of the interesting epitaph from which this phrase is taken may be quoted as a specimen of the dialect ; the stone was found in Corfinio, the ancient Corfinium, and the very perfect style of the Latin alphabet in which it is written shows that it cannot well be earlier than the last century BC: " Eite uus pritrome pacris, puus ecic lexe lifar ," " ite vos porro pacati ( cum bona pace ), qui hoc scriptum ( hbar, 3rd decl.

In this there may have been some exaggeration ; but all have acknowledged the elevation of Linacre's character, and the fine moral qualities summed up in the epitaph written by John Caius: " Fraudes dolosque mire perosus ; idus amicis ; omnibus ordinibus juxta carus ".

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences investigated this epitaph and reported that it was written as " Silla and Baekje were Client state of Japan ".

For his epitaph was a poem he had written, namely:

The epitaph, written in French, is from The_Abyss_ ( Marguerite_Yourcenar_novel ) | The Abyss: « Plaise à Celui qui Est peut-être de dilater le coeur de l ' homme à la mesure de toute la vie .», which can be translated to " May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.

The epitaph is of a typical combined written form, which contained both the chronological writings of the Princess ' whole life and the remembrance writings which displayed the praise and remembrance for the Princess.

The Balhae scholar-author of this epitaph was highly learned in the traditional Chinese literature and written masterpieces, reflected in the use of sentences which included poetic lines that were modeled upon some of the poets of the early Tang dynasty.

Henry's epitaph was written by Samuel Johnson.

* Epitaph for James Smith, a 1785 satirical Scots epitaph written by poet Robert Burns

* Jacob Pitman, advocate of shorthand ( whose epitaph is written phonetically )

It preserves his epitaph, written in Old Latin Saturnian meter:

He was buried in Blatherwycke church on 17 March 1635 and his epitaph was written by Peter Hausted, the author of The Rival Friends, on his monument, commissioned by Sir Christopher Hatton.

His epitaph was written by Barnabe Googe in May 1562.

The epitaph is written phonetically.

The highly eulogistic epitaph on his monument at Bushley was written by Edmund Burke.

From the expression of Gellius, characterizing his epitaph as written in a vein of Campanian arrogance, it has been inferred that he was born in one of the Latin communities settled in Campania.

Probably his latest composition was his own epitaph, written in saturnian verse:

On the southern wall of the sanctuary is the tomb and epitaph he erected for himself and his wives, detailing in a lengthy Latin inscription his ancestry and accomplishments, including his role as peacemaker between the Christian nations of Europe and a curiously altered portion detailing his curbing of heresy.

* An epitaph in Latin to a headmaster Henry Bright of King's College, Worcester can be found near the north porch

He is buried in the English Cemetery, Florence, his name in the register given as ' Ugo Giacomo Rose ', his Scipio tomb having a lengthy epitaph in Latin.

The decorations are heraldic, but the Latin epitaph merely records names and dates.

Among those buried in the site was John Tweddel, a friend of Lord Elgin, while excavations also revealed a slab from the grave of George Watson with a Latin epitaph by Lord Byron.

The existing Latin epitaph, Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice ( reader, if you seek his monument, look around you ), was re-used on a tablet mounted on the organ screen in 1810, although this was destroyed in the Blitz.

Chambers ' epitaph was published in both the original Latin and in English in the Gentleman's Magazine, volume 10, as follows ( translation is the original ):

The mass is based on a motet on the Latin epitaph of Maurice by the headmaster Georg Fabricius of the Misnian princely school.

A monument was erected to his memory in the cloisters, inscribed with a Latin epitaph composed by Samuel Parr.

There are few grave stone monuments ( stela ), dated 2nd-3rd century BC, on which, the epitaph is written in Greek script showing that the region had been a part of the Greek language sphere, and Kosovo and Skopje region which were part of the Latin language sphere.

On his death in 1622, John Owen was buried in the old St Paul's Cathedral, London, memorialized with a Latin epitaph, thanks to his countryman and relative, Bishop Williams of Lincoln, who is also said to have supported him in his later years.

It is inscribed with the Latin epitaph:

A Latin epitaph, discovered in the 18th century, says, however, that he was Archdeacon of Paris, and declares that he died in the city of Avignon in 1449.

His epitaph ( in Latin elegiac couplets ) is:

The epistle concludes with an epitaph in Greek and Latin.

An epitaph was written for him in elegant Latin by Pope Urban VIII, but on his tombstone are graven two quaint Italian hexameters of his own, in which the gazer is warned from the poet's own example not to prefer Parnassus to Calvary.

A Latin inscription, the epitaph of Septima Maria, discovered in Siklós ( southern Hungary near Yugoslav border ), clearly refers to her Jewishness (" Judaea ").

On 30 May 1252, King Ferdinand III died in the Alcázar ; he was buried in the cathedral, formerly the great mosque, under an epitaph written in Latin, Castilian, Arabic and Hebrew, a fitting tribute to his sobriquet of " King of the three religions ".

Altar tomb with Latin epitaph in the form of a deed to which is affixed the broad seal of the deceased.