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Headword: Anô potamôn chôrousi pêgai
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:
Anô potamôn chôrousi pêgai: paroimia epi tôn hupenantiôs ginomenôn ê legomenôn, hoion ho pornos ton sôphrona ei legoito pornon. epeidê hoi potamoi anôthen katô rheousi. toutestin epi tôn ta heautois prosonta elattômata heterois prosanatithemenôn.
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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