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“Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Ars Poetica. 359.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b31be6d4175646ada4e4dc52d5bb1cfcf0f1ceb90de27ec59ca801b7354504bf
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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