However, in Bernini's tomb, the vigorous upraised arm and posture of the pope is counterbalanced by an active drama below, wherein the figures of Charity and Justice are either distracted by putti or lost in contemplation, while skeletal Death actively writes the epitaph.

From this doctrine arose the Epicurean epitaph: Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo ( I was not ; I was ; I am not ; I do not care ) – which is inscribed on the gravestones of his followers and seen on many ancient gravestones of the Roman Empire.

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.

" But it has been said of this passage, " Even when Maharal is eulogized, whether in David Gans ’ Zemach David or on his epitaph …, not a word is said about the creation of a golem.

His gravestone bears the simple epitaph: " Here lies Eric Arthur Blair, born 25 June 1903, died 21 January 1950 "; no mention is made on the gravestone of his more famous pen-name.

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

The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest surviving example of a complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world.

An example of a complete composition is the Seikilos epitaph, which has been variously dated between the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD.

An epitaph honoring him is inscribed on his monument.

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.

Pope Damasus I placed an epitaph of eight hexameters over his tomb ; the epithet " martyr " contained in them is not to be

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.

The Seikilos epitaph ( 2c BC ) is a complete song ( although possibly for solo voice ).

His epitaph is ( Time the Commander of All Things ).

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 body is left there, with his epitaph scrawled on the tag from an oxygen bottle.

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.

The oldest known inscription that goes by the name of Phoenician is the Ahiram epitaph, engraved on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram from c. 1200 BC.

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

In particular, she did not bear children, despite 12 years of marriage, and this is perhaps emphasised in her epitaph, whereby she is mentioned as having been kind to ' pregnant women '.

The first is an epitaph in which the dead man is imagined to invoke blessings on those who had buried the body, and the second records the poet's gratitude to the drowned man for having saved his own life — Simonides had been warned by his ghost not to set sail from the island with his companions, who all subsequently drowned.

On it are inscribed Holst's dates, and an epitaph, taken from the text of The Hymn of Jesus, reading " The heavenly spheres make music for us ".

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.

His epitaph is taken from his song " I Wonder What Would Happen to this World ".

This epigram, or should I call it epitaph, is not taken as seriously by the undergraduates as by the professors.

However, Pope Sergius III ( 904 – 911 ), who as bishop had taken part in the Cadaver Synod as a co-judge, overturned the rulings of Theodore II and John IX, reaffirming Formosus ' conviction, and had a laudatory epitaph inscribed on the tomb of Stephen ( VI ) VII.

An epitaph, originally from Knutstorp, but now on a plaque near the church door, shows the whole family, including Tycho as a boy.

John the Evangelist and John the Baptist, an aisled hall church built in the 14th century and extended in the 15th century ; outstanding Gothic sculptures and paintings inside ( Moses, St. Mary Magdalene, gravestone of Johann von Soest ), Renaissance and Baroque epitaphs and altars ( amongst them the epitaph of Copernicus from 1580 )

A quotation from Olmsted's friend and colleague architect Daniel Burnham could serve as an epitaph.

The oldest surviving example of a complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world, is the Seikilos epitaph.

As explained by Antonio Manetti, who knew Brunelleschi and who wrote his biography, Brunelleschi " was granted such honors as to be buried in the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, and with a marble bust, which they say was carved from life, and placed there in perpetual memory with such a splendid epitaph.

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

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.

Penny Ashbrook calls Querelle Fassbinder's " perfect epitaph: an intensely personal statement that is the most uncompromising portrayal of male homosexual sensibility to come from a major filmmaker.

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 ".

He was featured in Thomas Dekker's News from Hell and referred to in the anonymous Parnassus plays, of which the latter provides this epitaph:

The poem is the epitaph of a man, identified only by a combination of letters and numbers somewhat like an American Social Security number (" JS / 07 / M / 378 "), who is described entirely in external terms: from the point of view of government organizations such as the fictional " Bureau of Statistics.

His epitaph reads " When your face is hidden from me, like the moon hidden on a dark night, I shed stars of tears and yet my night remains dark in spite of all those shining stars.

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.

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 ):

He managed one final attack on Wilhelm by having his tombstone inscribed with the epitaph " Here lies a true servant of the Emperor Wilhelm I ".

Miller spoke of Willkie saying, " Shortly before Willkie died, he told a friend, that if he could write his own epitaph and had to choose between ' here lies a president ' or ' here lies one who contributed to saving freedom ,' he would prefer the latter.

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.

The spurious poem 21 may have been one of the Hopes, and poem 26 may have been one of the Heroines ; elegiacs are found in 8. 33 — 60, and the spurious epitaph on Bion may have been one of the Dirges.

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.

Sir Aston Cockayne, Massinger's constant friend and patron, refers in explicit terms to this collaboration in a sonnet addressed to Humphrey Moseley on the publication of his folio edition of Beaumont and Fletcher ( Small Poems of Divers Sorts, 1658 ), and in an epitaph on the two poets he says: " Plays they did write together, were great friends, And now one grave includes them in their ends.

During the 1870s the following epitaph was suggested for him by one of the wits of his day:

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.

This is shown by the epitaph of one Ursatius, an ostiary of Trier.

The epitaph read only one word: " PALS ".

His epitaph reads " Here rests in peace the one who was the Joy of the People – Mané Garrincha.

George Vertue was one of the work's many admirers ; it showed, he thought, " the greatness of his genius in his invention, design and execution, in every part equal, if not superior, to any others " outshining " for nobleness and skill all those before done by the best sculptors this fifty years past " The mourning figure of Eloquence, the notably unkind John Thomas Smith found to be " such a memorial of his powers, that even his friend Pope could not have equalled it by an epitaph ".

This is compounded by the fact that none of the 3 grave site has epitaph ( inscription ) on tombstone in memory of the one buried there.

The poem of sixteen verses which forms the epitaph shows plainly that the language used is one not understood by all: Let the brother who shall understand this pray for Abercius.

At one point he even composes his epitaph:

A set of two granite epitaph plaques from tomb of King Muryeong — one for the king and one for his queen.

It is summarized in his epitaph that during his lifetime, Arniko completed three stupas, nine great Buddhist temples, two Confucian shrines, one Daoist temple, and countless images and objects used in and out of the court.

However, one of the first inscriptions so identified ( the Gu taishi mingshi ji epitaph, found in 1935 ) has been since lost, and the preserved rubbings of it are not very legible ; moreover, some believe that this inscription was a forgery in the first place.