EPICEDION (from ἐπι, and κήδος, funeral), in Greek and Latin poetry, a funeral poem or dirge. At the obsequies of persons of distinction there were usually three similar marks of honour: the eulogy rehearsed at the bustum or funeral pile, and called nenia; the inscription on the tomb, epitaphion; and the poem delivered in the funeral ceremony, and called epicedion. There are two beautiful specimens of the latter in Virgil; that of Euryalus, and that of Pallas.