I have met with several instances of epitaphs on the gravestones of such valuable domestics, recorded with the simple truth of natural feeling.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
The epitaphs composed for themselves by Naevius, Plautus, Ennius, and Pacuvius, and the assertion of their own originality and of their hopes of fame which occurs in the poetry of Lucretius, Virgil, and Horace, were dictated by a strong sense of their own personality, and of the importance of the task on which they were engaged.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
The epitaphs of these obscure toilers have been brought to light in every part of the Roman world, in remote towns in Spain, Gaul, Noricum, Dacia, and North Africa, as well as in the ancient centres of refinement in Italy or the Greek East.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill