The common in their speeches epitaph upon him . . . "He lived as a wolf and died as a dog."
Bp. Hall.
Ep"i*taph`er (?), n. A writer of epitaphs. Nash.
{ Ep`i*taph"i*al (?), Ep`i*taph"i*an (?), } a. Relating to, or of the nature of, an epitaph.
The noble Pericles in his epitaphian speech.
Milton.
Epitaphial Latin verses are not to be taken too literally.
Lowell.
Ep`i*taph"ic (?), a. Pertaining to an epitaph; epitaphian. -- n. An epitaph. Udall.
Ep"i*taph`ist (?), n. An epitapher.
||E*pit"a*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a stretching, fr. &?; to stretch upon or over; 'epi` upon + &?; to stretch.] 1. That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis.