英语词汇to err is human的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	to err is human
词源	to err is human. The old proverb dates back to at least the 14th century in its Latin form: humanum et errare. Long be- fore this, the Greek dramatist Sophocles wrote in his tragedy Antigone (?441 b.c.) “To err from the right path is common to mankind.” Sometimes the proverb is heard as “to err is hu- man, to forgive divine,” which seems to have been coined by English poet Alexander Pope in his “Essay on Criticism” (1711).
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