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The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1

Note 468 — CIII (F I, 6)

Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation

ἐξ ἀπαλῶν ὀνύχων, i.e., "from your earliest youth." Others explain it to mean "from the bottom of your heart," or "thoroughly," from the idea that the nerves ended in the nails. ἔξ αὐτῶν τῶν ὀνύχων, "thoroughly," occurs in late Greek, and similar usages in the Anthology.

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