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Tener Vngvis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Alan Cameron
Alan Cameron
Affiliation:
Bedford College, London
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Extract

Opinion has long been divided as to the exact interpretation of the phrase de tenero ungui, the Latin version of a Greek proverbial expression The competing explanations are:

A. ‘from the depth of her being’, penitus.

B. ‘from her earliest childhood’, ab infantia; that is, presumably, from the time when the nails were still soft like those of a very young baby (though cf. E. W. Fay, A.J.Ph. xxix [1908], 205).

Type
Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , May 1965 , pp. 80 - 83
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1965

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References

page 81 note 1 I owe this reference to the kindness of the editors of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae.

page 83 note 1 I am grateful to Professor C. J. Fordyce and Mr. R. G. M. Nisbet for reading a draft of this note.