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