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even + Homer + nods(“be momentarily inattentive or inaccurate”), alluding to line 359 of Horace’s Ars Poetica[1]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).
Thoſe are but Stratagems which Errors ſeem, / Nor is it Homer Nods, but We that Dream.
1713, [Jean] de la Bruyere, N[icholas] Rowe, “Of M. de la Bruyere’s Book, entitul’d, The Characters: Or the Manners of the Present Age”, in The Works of Monsieur De La Bruyere. In Two Volumes. Containing, I. The Moral Characters of Theophrastus. II. The Characters, or, The Manners of the Present Age. III. M. Bruyeres Speech upon His Admission into the French Academy. IV. An Account of the Life and Writings of M. Bruyere. By Monsieur Coste. Revis’d by the Paris Edition: With an Original Chapter, Of the Manner of Living with Great Men: Written after the Method of M. Bruyere, by N. Rowe, Esq., 6th edition, volume I, London: Printed for E[dmund] Curll, at the Dial and Bible, and J. Pemberton, at the Buck and Sun; both against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, →OCLC, page 102:
He [de Vigneul-Marvin] knows that Homer nods sometimes, and that Faults are found in the beſt writers. He is an Author himself, and conſequently may commit an Over-ſight as well as Pindar, Virgil, Horace, and all the moſt celebrated Ancient and Modern Authors.
And Homer nods: The Arizona Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles played in this year's NFC championship, not NFL championship as we said in a Friday follow-up (since corrected).
^ Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Ars Poetica (c. 18 BC), ll. 354–360 Vt scriptor si peccat idem librarius usque, quamuis est monitus, uenia caret, et Citharoedus ridetur, chorda qui semper oberrat eadem, sic mihi, qui multum cessat, fit Choerilus ille, quem bis terque bonum cum risu miror; et idem indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus; uerum operi longo fas est obrepere somnum.
