- (8th century BC) , Greek epic poet. He is traditionally held to be the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, though modern scholarship has revealed the place of the Homeric poems in a pre-literate oral tradition. In later antiquity Homer was regarded as the greatest poet, and his poems were constantly used as a model and source by others.荷马（公元前8世纪, 希腊英雄史诗诗人, 尽管现代研究表明荷马史诗在文字出现前就以口头传说方式存在, 但传统上仍认为他是《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》的作者; 他被认为是古代最伟大的诗人, 他的诗歌也经常被用作范例和援引资料）。
短语
Homer sometimes nods
- proverb even the most gifted person occasionally makes mistakes〈谚〉荷马也会打盹; 人非圣贤, 孰能无过。