question about book anatomy

Transentient · 17 Nov 2007, 14:04 · from 2007-November.txt.gz

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From: transentient at gmail.com (Transentient)
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:04:50 -0500
Subject: (urth) question about book anatomy
Message-ID: <95E3FE8C-23FD-4B01-88F2-63378C912243 at gmail.com>

With Pirate Freedom, Wolfe has again placed a favorite quote of his  
right at the beginning. After the acknowledgements, before the page  
with the title on it.

Can anybody tell me what this component of a book is called? Its not a  
preface, its not a forward...is it an epigram? It's "a quote at the  
beginning of a book..." and I know there is a more specific definition.

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