even Homer nods

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Takto v roce 1677 anglický spisovatel John Dryden přeložil verš „bonus dormitat Homerus“ z Horaciova spisu O umění básnickém.

• even Homer (sometimes) nods scil.

• Homer nods, Homer sometimes nods, even Homer sometimes nods

1. (přeneseně) i mistr tesař se někdy utne, nikdo není dokonalý
   • But even Homer nods, and so does Nabokov, and to build sweeping interpretations on details that seem much more explicable as errors is fraught with danger.
   • If we mean to continue to talk to one another, don't I have to understand what you're saying if, to excuse an inattention, you remind me that, after all, even Homer nodded? – Avšak chceme-li doopravdy spolu nadále hovořit, zdaliž nemusím pochopit, co říkáte, když mi připomínáte, že konec konců i mistr tesař se uťal?^[1]
   • But even Homer nods at times ; and, as if to warn us against following too implicitly any leader, however illustrious, Bopp sought to include the Polynesian dialects in his Indo - European family, and thereby violated the very method that he had himself inaugurated.^[2]

1. a horse may stumble though he has four legs, even Jove nods, l’erreur est humaine

Doslovnější překlad: Ba i Homér (sem tam) schrupne/zdřímne., ještě doslovněji: „...hlavičkou pokývá.“