Q: Word for beginning-of-chapter quotations?

[Joel S. Berson]

I'm looking for the more-specific one that I think exists.

At 1/11/2007 02:50 PM, you wrote:
>Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>What is the word for the usually-short quotations sometimes placed at
>>the beginning of chapters?  I've lost it.
>
>Epigram?
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