“I am displeased when sometimes even the worthy Homer nods;”

—  Horace, Ars Poetica

Whence the familiar expression, Even Homer nods (i.e. No one is perfect: even the wisest make mistakes).
Source: Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC), Line 359

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