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I have found the above explanation (i.e. a typical Roman meal would begin with eggs and end with fruits) in the Russian Great Legal Encyclopedic Dictionary by A.B. Barihin, published by Kniz'ny Mir in Moscow. (The article "ab ovo" gave the explanation without referring to a source (i.e. Horace) 82.118.67.5 ( talk) 07:28, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
The article said "This advice is famously ignored" in Sterne's book. That's not quite it. The advice is not ignored, it's discussed and explicitly rejected. So I wrote "rejected". Andrew Dalby 16:21, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
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I have found the above explanation (i.e. a typical Roman meal would begin with eggs and end with fruits) in the Russian Great Legal Encyclopedic Dictionary by A.B. Barihin, published by Kniz'ny Mir in Moscow. (The article "ab ovo" gave the explanation without referring to a source (i.e. Horace) 82.118.67.5 ( talk) 07:28, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
The article said "This advice is famously ignored" in Sterne's book. That's not quite it. The advice is not ignored, it's discussed and explicitly rejected. So I wrote "rejected". Andrew Dalby 16:21, 29 March 2014 (UTC)