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EPITAPH (Gr. fcnrdifru*, sc. X&yot, from fcri, upon, and ratfaf, a tomb), strictly, an inscription upon a tomb, though by a natural extension of usage the name is applied to anything written ostensibly for that purpose whether actually inscribed upon a tomb or ...

ETAH, a town and district of British India, in the Agra division of the United Provinces. The town is situated on the Grand Trunk road. Pop. (1901) 8796. The district has an area of 1737 sq. m. The district consists for the most part of an elevated alluvial pl

PTAH, the Hephaestus of the Greeks, a demiurgic and creative god, special patron of hand-workers and artisans. Worshipped in Mempnis, he perhaps owed his importance more to the political prominence of that town than to anything else. He was early identified wi

... eks at the end of the year 235. Me died on the 3rd of January 236. His original epitaph was discovered in the Catacombs.

... affairs. He offered sacrifices to Artemis Agrotera and Enyalios, superintended epitaphia and arranged for the annual honours paid to the tyrannicides. His official residence was the Epilyceum (formerly called the Polemarcheion). BIBLIOGRAPHY. — G. Gilbert. Co ...

... Arnauld's name would be almost forgotten — or, at most, live only in the famous epitaph Boileau consecrated to his memory — " Au pied de cet autel de structure grossiere Git sans pompe, cnfcrme dans une vile biere Le plus savant mortel qui jamais ait ecrit." F ...

... , Einhard died on the I4th of March 840. He was buried at Seligenstadt, and his epitaph was written by Hrabanus Maurus. Einhard EINHORN— EISENACH was a man of very short stature, a feature on which Alcuin wrote an epigram. Consequently he was called Nardtiltu, ...

... are ruins of a large fortress and of a church in which were found mosaics with epitaphs of various bishops and martyrs. The Enfida estate was granted by the bey Mahommed-esSadok to his chief minister Khaireddin Pasha (q.v.) in return for the confirmation by t ...

... -etta, Fi.-Eng.-elte. 3. Finally must be mentioned the remarkable pre-Hellenic epitaph discovered on the island of Lemnos in 1885 (Pauli, Allital. Forsch. ii. i and 2), the language of which offers remarkable resemblances to Etruscan, especially in the phrase ...

... in Sicily. He was buried in the cemetery of St Calixtus at Rome; and the extant epitaph, in eight hexameter lines, set up here by his successor Damasus, contains all the information there is about his life. EUSEBIUS [OF CAESAKEA] (c. t6o-c. 340), ecclesiastica ...

EUTYCHIANUS, pope from 275 to 283. His original epitaph was discovered in the catacombs (see Kraus, Roma sotterranea, p. 154 et seq.), but nothing more is known of him.

... llence of Toup's scholarship was " known to the learned throughout Europe " (so epitaph on the tablet in the church of East Looe set up by the delegates of the Clarendon Press), but his overbearing manner and extreme self-confidence made him many enemies.

... s adventures survive, and these were reprinted in Hakluyt's Voyages (1589). His Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets appeared " newly corrected with additions " in 1567. In the same year he published translations of the Heroycatt Epistles of Ovid, and of the E ...