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Headword: *)/anw potamw=n xwrou=si phgai/
Adler number: alpha,2596
Translated headword: streams are flowing up rivers
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

A proverb in reference to those acting or speaking in a contradictory manner, such as if the male prostitute were to claim that the temperate man was a male prostitute. For rivers flow down from above.[1]
That is, in reference to those ascribing their own imperfections to others.

Greek Original:

*)/anw potamw=n xwrou=si phgai/: paroimi/a e)pi\ tw=n u(penanti/ws ginome/nwn h)\ legome/nwn, oi(=on o( po/rnos to\n sw/frona ei) le/goito po/rnon. e)peidh\ oi( potamoi\ a)/nwqen ka/tw r(e/ousi. toute/stin e)pi\ tw=n ta\ e(autoi=s proso/nta e)lattw/mata e(te/rois prosanatiqeme/nwn.

Note:

[1] Zenobius 2.56 (and other paroemiographers); also in Photius, who cites the instance in Demosthenes 19.287. An earlier one still is Euripides, Medea 410. See generally Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1890.

Keywords: daily life; gender and sexuality; geography; imagery; proverbs; rhetoric; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 July 2000@10:53:40.
Vetted by:

David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; added keywords) on 11 March 2001@08:27:14.
David Whitehead (added note) on 14 August 2002@03:57:58.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaking) on 16 March 2012@06:40:46.
David Whitehead on 17 August 2012@06:08:08.
David Whitehead on 20 July 2015@03:12:42.

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