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This is a common proverb among the educated and means ‘even experts are fallible’. It originates with the Roman poet Horace from his book the Art of Poetry line 359, which reads ‘indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus (‘a I become annoyed when the great Homer is being drowsy”). The proverb is also heard as ‘even Jove nods’. Is there a moder Greek equivalent proverb about fallible experts, something on the lines of τον παίρνει λιγάκι κι ο Δίας? I can’t find one in my library but there may be a colleague who knows this proverb in Greek or somet of the sort.
