epicedia

Updated: August 23, 2026

But since it is only Fred, Who was alive and is dead, There's no more to be said." It is curious to contrast this grim suggestion for an epitaph on the dead prince with the stately volume which the University of Oxford issued from the Clarendon Press: "Epicedia Oxoniensia in obitum celsissimi et desideratissimi Frederici Principis Walliae."

Justin McCarthy - A History of the Four Georges, Volume II