A.over or at a tomb, ἀγὼν ἐ. funeral games, Arist.Ath.58.1, D.S.17.117 ; ἐπιτάφιον (sc. ἀγῶνα) “ἀγωνίσασθαι” IG5(1).660, Plu. Pyrrh.31, Luc.Eun.4 ; esp. ἐ. λόγος a funeral oration, such as was spoken at Athens over the citizens who had fallen in battle, Pl.Mx. 236b, D.20.141 (pl.) ; also ὁ ἐ. (sc. λόγος) Arist.Rh.1365a31 ; title of work by Gorgias ; applied to Pl.Mx. by D.H.Comp.9 ; “ἐ. ἔπαινος” Plu.2.218a ; ἐ. σοφιστής, of one who makes such speeches, Ach.Tat.3.25.
ἐπιτα?́φ-ιος , ον, (τάφος)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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