The Only Use of
epigraph
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- The increasing simplification traceable from the Egyptian epigraphic hieroglyphs to the Greek and Roman alphabets and the anticipation of modern stenography and telegraphic code in the cuneiform inscriptions (Semitic) and the virgular quinquecostate ogham writing (Celtic).†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(epigraph) a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing such as a book or chapter
or:
an inscription engraved into something such as a building or statue