In what follows I shall analyse funerary epigrams in which the wayfarer is invited to abstain from violating the tomb. I will deal f\u133irst with inscriptional epigrams, in order to survey motifs and language of the so called arai epitymbioi. I will then analyse the same theme in literary poems, focussing in particular on Gregory of Nazianzus\u2019 treatment of the topos, in order to illuminate the diffferences and especially the similarities between the use of this motif in both inscriptional and literary epigrams. I will try to argue that Gregory consciously plays not only with the Greek literary tradition\u2014which is hardly surprising, considering what a cultivated poet he was\u2014but also that he is well acquainted with epigraphic h...