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please does anyone know the latin literall meaning off
from the egg
thank you
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ab ovo \ab-OH-voh\, adverb:
From the beginning.
I will begin ab ovo -- at the very beginning.
-- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The performers do not have to discover these techniques and processes ab ovo; they learn them from the previous generation, who learned them from their predecessors, and so on.
(Latin �from the egg�)
in literature, the practice of beginning a poetic narrative at the earliest possible chronological point. The Latin poet and critic Horace approvingly notes in Ars poetica that Homer does not begin a tale of the Trojan War with the twin egg from which Helen was born but rather in the middle of events.