英语词汇the chicken or the egg的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	the chicken or the egg
词源	the chicken or the egg? An abbreviation of the old puzzle, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” The answer seems to be that each thing is necessary to the other. People have been asking this question since at least the time of Macrobius in about a.d. 400, the Latin author using it in his Saturnalia or Feast of Saturn at that time: Ovumme prius fuerit aut gallina?
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