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πρὶν τοὺς ἰχθῦς ἑλεῖν σὺ τὴν ἅλμην κυκᾷς → you're mixing the sauce before catching the fish | don't count your chickens before they are hatched | don't count your chickens before they hatch | first catch your hare | first catch your rabbit | first catch your rabbit and then make your stew | first catch your hare, then cook it | first catch your hare, then cook him
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Revision as of 18:17, 7 February 2013
English (LSJ)
ον, (γελάω)
A not laughing, grave, gloomy, h.Cer.200; ἀ. πρόσωπα βιαζόμενοι A.Ag.794; of the orator Crassus, Lucil. ap. Cic.Fin.5.30, cf. Vett. Val.75.11: metaph., Σίβυλλα ἀγέλαστα φθεγγομένη Heraclit.92; ἀ. φρήν A.Fr.290; βίος Phryn.Com. 18; ἀ. πέτρα, stone at Eleusis on which Demeter sat, SIG2587.183, Apollod. 1.5.1. II Pass., not to be laughed at, not trifling, ξυμφοραί A. Ch.30, v.l. Od.8.307.
