even Homer nods

短语

智者千虑，必有一失

发音

AU

别名

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

释义与例句

prov.
  1. 1.

    Not even the most vigilant and expert are immune to error.

    智者千虑，必有一失

    必有一失

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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