Καρύαι
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)
[ῠ], ῶν, αἱ, Caryae, a place in Laconia with a famous temple of Artemis, Th.5.55, etc.:—hence Κᾰρῠᾶτις, ιδος, ἡ, μέλισσα (prob. priestess of Artemis) St.Byz.; as Subst. esp. 1 Artemis, Paus.3.10.7. 2 dance in honour of Artemis, Poll.4.104; cf. καρυατίζω 2. II Κᾰρῠάτῐδες, ων, αἱ, priestesses of Artemis at Caryae, Pratin.Lyr.4. 2 Archit., female figures used as bearing-shafts, Lync. ap. Ath.6.241e, Vitr.1.1.5. 3 a kind of ear-rings, Poll.5.97.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
Καρύαι: ῶν αἱ, τόπος ἐν Λακωνικῇ μετὰ περιφήμου ναοῦ τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος, Θουκ. 5. 55, κτλ.· -ἐντεῦθεν, ΙΙ. Καρυᾶτις, ἡ, ἐπώνυμον τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος, Παυσ. 3. 10, 7. 2) Λακωνικὸν ὄρχημα εἰς τιμὴν τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος, Πολυδ. Δ΄, 104· - ὁπόθεν Καρυᾱτίζω, ὀρχοῦμαι τὸ ὄρχημα τοῦτο, Λουκ. π. Ὀρχ. 10. ΙΙΙ. Κᾰρυάτῐδες, ων, αἱ, αἱ ἱέρειαι τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος ἐν Καρύαις, Meineke εἰς Εὔφορ. σ. 94. 2) ἐν τῇ Ἀρχιτεκτονικῇ Καρυάτιδες εἶναι ἀγάλματα κορῶν χρησιμεύοντα ὡς κίονες ἢ ὑποστηρίγματα ἐπιστυλίων, Βιτρούβ. 1. 1· πρβλ. Müller Archäol. d. Kunst. § 279, Museum Grit. 2. 400, καὶ ἴδε ἐν λ. Ἄτλαντες, Τελαμῶνες, Κανηφόροι. 3) εἶδος ἐνωτίου, Πολυδ. Ε΄,97.
