Οἰναῖοι τὴν χαράδραν
Oinaians (and) the torrent
Translated by David Whitehead8 Oct 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those summoned to help but doing harm; for when the men of Oinoe were diverting the torrent a mass of water rushed onto them and deluged everything.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Οἰναῖοι τὴν χαράδραν· ἐπὶ τῶν ἐπ' ὠφελείᾳ παρακαλουμένων, βλαπτόντων δέ· τῶν γὰρ Οἰναίων παροχετευόντων τὴν χαράδραν, ἐπιρραγὲν ὕδωρ πολὺ κατέκλυσε πάντα.
Betacode
*oi)nai=oi th\n xara/dran: e)pi\ tw=n e)p' w)felei/a| parakaloume/nwn, blapto/ntwn de/: tw=n ga\r *oi)nai/wn paroxeteuo/ntwn th\n xara/dran, e)pirrage\n u(/dwr polu\ kate/kluse pa/nta.
Notes
- Same entry in Photius, Lexicon omicron117 Theodoridis (from Pausanias the Atticist); likewise or similarly in several of the paroemiographers.
See omicroniota 121 and the notes there.
Linked from2 entries
- οι121Οἰνόη τὴν χαράδρανOinoe (created) the torrent[This is said] whenever someone does something to his own detriment; for Oinoe is a deme of Attica, the members of which diverted the course of a torrent which was approaching them into their own territory. The torrent…
- π708Παροχετεύειdiverts[Meaning he/she/it] directs [sc. water] obliquely. Or casts or carries the water from one conduit to another. Also [sc. attested is] paroxeteu/ontes ["they diverting"], [meaning] they transferring.
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