Not even the most vigilant and expert are immune to error.
Horace acknowledges that honeſt Homer''' nods ſometimes: He is not equally awake in every Line: […]
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...
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