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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

epicedion

, Gr. [GREEK] dirge, elegy, fr. [GREEK] funereal; [GREEK] + [GREEK] care, sorrow: cf. F.

épicède

A funeral song or discourse; an elegy.

[R.]

Donne.

Noun.

[Gr.] A funeral song or discourse.

epicede ‎(plural epicedes or epicedia)

An elegy; an ode to someone deceased.
- 1875, Algernon Charles Swinburne, George Chapman: A Critical Essay, Page 139
  "This epicede, longer and more ornate than that issued two years before on Prince Henry, is neither much worse nor much better in substance and in style."

elegy, ode to deceased