Epigraphs

[Jeremy Osner]

Isn't 'epigraph' also used to mean a witticism independent of whether
it's at the beginning of a literary work? I tend to confuse epigraphs
with epitaphs.

Lycidas at worldnet.att.net wrote:

> Epigraph:
>
>     A brief quotation which appears at the beginning of a
> literary work.

--
Both Melissus and Parmenides argue fallaciously,
and they make false assumptions and their reasonings
are not logical; but the argument of Melissus is the
more wearisome, for it sets no problem, but granted
one strange thing, others follow; and there is no
difficulty in this.

Aristotle, Physics