τρητός
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
English (LSJ)
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A perforated, with a hole in it, λίθος Od. 13.77; ἐν τρητοῖσι λεχέεσσιν, prob. of inlaid bedsteads (cf. τορευτός), Il.3.448, cf. Od.1.440, al.; others expld. it of the holes through which the cords that supported the bedding were drawn, or of the holes in the bedposts which received the framework (ἐνήλατα), EM 765.3:—μελισσᾶν τρητὸς πόνος, i. e. the honeycomb, Pi.P.6.54; τρητά mortised, Pl.Plt.279e; τ. ὀστοῦν, opp. ἄτρητον, Arist.HA516a27; λίθαξ τ. pumice-stone, AP6.66 (Paul. Sil.); τ. δόνακες shepherd's pipes, ib.78 (Eratosth.).
