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ab o⋅vo

  [ahb oh-woh; Eng. ab oh-voh]
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–adverb Latin.
from the beginning.
Origin:
lit., from the egg
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ab o·vo   (āb ō'vō)   
adv.  From the beginning.

[Latin ab ōvō : ab, from + ōvō, ablative of ōvum, egg.]
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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

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