even Homer nods

谚语
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谚语
  1. Even the most vigilant and expert are prone to error.
    — Horace acknowledges that honeſt Homer''' nods ſometimes: He is not equally awake in every Line: […]

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even Jove nods alternative even Homer sometimes nods alternative Homer nods alternative Homer sometimes nods alternative Jove nods alternative

词源

From even + Homer + nods (“be momentarily inattentive or inaccurate”), alluding to line 359 of Horace’s Ars Poetica indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus (“I become annoyed when the great Homer is being drowsy”). The English translation Homer nods has become standard following Pope (1709), but is due to Dryden (1677).
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