There was not an epitaph forSpartacus He was killed along his fellow rebels by the Roman armies which suppressed his revolt. An epitaph is aninscriptionon a tombstone. It is unlikely that they held a funeral or made a tombstone for a man who was aslaveand who had been a great threat to the Roman state.
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The name "Spartacus" is a Latin name. It had no nationality as such. The rebel gladiator Spartacus was said to be from Thrace and also was said to have served in the Roman army. Many auxiliaries either Latinized their names or changed them completely to a Latin (Roman) name.
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As the title should tell you, the movie Spartacus is about the gladiator who escaped along with others and terrorized Italy. Much of the movie versions of Spartacus are fictionalized as very little is actually known about the person called Spartacus.
Spartacus became a gladiator when he was captured and trained. I know this is not a very specific answer, but we know very, very little about Spartacus, the man. We don't even know if "Spartacus" was his real name. He comes into history as a leader of a slave revolt and leaves history as a defeated enemy.
Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua was created in 1842.