EPIGRAPH

EPIGRAPH, is also applied to certain elegies, either in prose or in verse, composed without any intent to be engraven on tombs; as, That of Alexander,

Sufficit hinc tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis;

and that of Newton,

Isaacum Newton,
Quem immortalem
Tresuntur Tempus, Natura, Caelum,
Mortalem hoc marmor
Fatur.