ἐπιτάφιον (epitaphion)

ἐπιτάφιον is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιτάφιος, meaning “at a tomb; funeral”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.6.55: … δὲ οὐδὲ δακρῦσαί φασιν αὐτὸν ἀλλὰ * γὰρ εἰπεῖν, ᾔδειν θνητὸν γεγεννηκώς. φησὶ δʼ Ἀριστοτέλης ὅτι ἐγκώμια καὶ ἐπιτάφιον Γρύλλου μυρίοι ὅσοι συνέγραψαν, τὸ μέρος καὶ τῷ πατρὶ χαριζόμενοι. ἀλλὰ καὶ Ἕρμιππος ἐν τῷ περὶ Θεοφράστου κα …

Lucian of Samosata, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit 26: Εἶτ' ἐπειδὴ Θουκυδίδης ἐπιτάφιόν τινα εἶπε τοῖς πρώτοις τοῦ πολέμου ἐκείνου νεκροῖς καὶ αὐτὸς ἡγήσατο χρῆναι ἐπειπεῖν τῷ Σευηριανῷ. ἅπασι γὰρ …

All forms of ἐπιτάφιος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.