So important was the war to Aeschylus and the Greeks that, upon his death, around 456 BC, his epitaph commemorated his participation in the Greek victory at Marathon rather than his success as a playwright.

The epitaph on his tombstone in Göttingen are the famous lines he spoke at the conclusion of his retirement address to the Society of German Scientists and Physicians in the fall of 1930.

An epitaph ( from Greek epitaphion " a funeral oration " from ἐπί epi " at, over " and τάφος taphos " tomb ") is a short text honoring a deceased person, strictly speaking that is inscribed on their tombstone or plaque, but also used figuratively.

However, the Laudatio Turiae, the longest known Ancient Roman epitaph exceeds almost all of these at 180 lines ; it celebrates the virtues of a wife, probably of a consul.

He is reported to have died at Bologna of the Black Death in 1348, and an epitaph in the church of the Dominicans in which he was

In fact one modern scholar has wondered if Herodotus left his home in Asiatic Greece, migrating westwards to Athens and beyond, because his own countrymen had ridiculed his work, a circumstance possibly hinted at in an epitaph said to have been dedicated to Herodotus at Thuria ( one of his three supposed resting places ):

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.

He had once quipped that he wanted his headstone to bear the words " I told you I was ill ." He was buried at St Thomas's cemetery but the Chichester diocese refused to allow this epitaph.

The Commonwealth cemetery, as is common at many such cemeteries in the world, consists of parallel rows of gravestones, each one bearing an engraving of the deceased soldier's unit emblem, his name and an epitaph from his family.

His epitaph reads: " Struck down by Death at the moment of glory.

Of particular interest is the 11th century slab, a sleek black stone decorated with her epitaph, marking her grave at the rear of the church.

Lebec is named in honor of Peter Lebeck or Lebecque, who was killed by a bear nearby in 1837, and is memorialized in an epitaph at Old Fort Tejon, found carved on an old oak tree.

It is directly across the road from the hill where Simonides of Ceos's epitaph is engraved in stone at the top.

Barnes calls attention to an epitaph at Nicomedia of one of Aurelian's protectors, which could indicate the emperor's presence in the Bithynian region soon after 270.

His epitaph is taken from one account of his remarks concluding the 1926 premiere of Puccini's unfinished Turandot: " Qui finisce l ' opera, perché a questo punto il maestro è morto " (" Here the opera ends, because at this point the maestro died ").

However, as mentioned above, Scipio's epitaph claims that it was he who fought the Samnites, and then not at Bovianum and Aufidena, but at Taurasia and Cisauna.

Yet, at the same time, Browne can be tersely witty, mocking human vainglory: " Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself.

He is buried at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery, in Annapolis, Maryland, according to his wishes, his headstone simply bears a one word epitaph, Sailor.

The book's name might be inspired by the famous epitaph to King Leonidas and his men, erected at Thermopylae: Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by / That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

The following epitaph, said by Billy Martin himself at his number retiring ceremony at Yankee Stadium in 1986, appears on the headstone: I may not have been the greatest Yankee to put on the uniform, but I was the proudest.

This has traditionally been interpreted as evidence of an earlier, shorter epitaph, which was replaced by the surviving text at a later date.

The epitaph on his gravestone set in the floor of the chapel reads: " I stay with you " (" Je reste avec vous ").

The epitaph reads: " And the Beat Goes On.

The epitaph on Bono's headstone reads: " And the Beat Goes On.

The epitaph reads Duirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite, Irish for " I told you I was ill ."

: Jefferson wrote his own epitaph, which reads:

Scrooge McDuck's gravestone epitaph reads " Fortuna Favet Fortibus.

Her body was transferred to Rouen Cathedral in 1847 ; her epitaph reads: " Great by Birth, Greater by Marriage, Greatest in her Offspring: Here lies Matilda, the daughter, wife, and mother of Henry.

Ray's epitaph reads " unconcerned, but not indifferent ".

Her epitaph reads " together again ".

The epitaph on Bono's headstone reads: " And The Beat Goes On ".

His epitaph reads: " John Le Mesurier.

The epitaph reads, " OSHO.

Evelyn's epitaph ( original spelling ) reads:

His epitaph reads " Here Lies One Hell of a Man ", which is a quote from a lyric from his uncensored version of the song " Big Bad John ".

His epitaph reads:

The epitaph on the front of the crypt reads " Forever In Tune ".< ref >

Her epitaph reads, " My soul has gained the freedom of the night " — the last line of the last poem in her 1927 collection.

The epitaph for his burial site in Algiers reads: " une mémoire pure de sang humain " (" a memory untainted by human blood ").

Theophilus ' epitaph reads as follows ...

His epitaph reads, " As the full moon rises / The swan sings in sleep / On the lake of the mind.

His epitaph reads, ' He counted his life not dear to himself.

His marker ( mimicking the epitaph of British architect Christopher Wren ) reads, " If you seek his monument, look about you.

Her epitaph reads: