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
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, in mathematics, epigraph references the area on or above the graph of a function.