Found on a page about the meaning of vice-versa (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/vice-versa.html)
A similar term, 'arsy versy', has now become archaic. For example, from Richard Taverner's Prouerbes or adagies with newe addicions, gathered out of the Chiliades of Erasmus, 1539:
"Ye set the cart before the horse - cleane contrarily and arsy versy as they say."
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