EPITAPH

EPITAPH, is also applied to certain elogies, either in prose or in verse, composed without any intent to be engraven on tombs; as, that of Alexander,

Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis.

and that of Newton,

Isaacum

Isaacum Newton,
Quem immortalium
Testantur Tempus, Natura, Calum;
Mortalem hoc marmor
Fateatur.