κωθωνίζω
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)
A make drunken, Hsch., Phot.:—Pass., drink hard, κ. ταῖς μεγάλαις (sc. κύλιξι) Arist.Pr.872b28, cf. LXXEs.3.15, Mnesith. ap.Ath.11.484a, Phylarch.1 J., Gal.UP4.13; κ. ἀφ' ἡμέρας, de die potare, Plb.23.5.9; κεκωθωνισμένος inebriated, Eub.126, cf. PSI3.172.23 (ii B.C.).
German (Pape)
[Seite 1541] bechern, zechen, gew. im med., sich bezechen, sich betrinken, bei Ath. XI, 483, βεβρεγμένος ἥκω καὶ κεκωθωνισμένος Eubul. ib. I, 23 b, vgl. Phylarch. ibd. VIII, 334 b; Arist. probl. 3, 14; Pol. 24, 5, 9 u. Sp.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
κωθωνίζω: μέλλ. Ἀττ. -ιῶ, μεθύσκω τινά, Φώτ., Ἡσύχ.· ― Παθ., πίνω «’ς τὰ γερά», κ. ταῖς μεγάλαις (δηλ. κύλιξι) Ἀριστ. Προβλ. 3. 12, πρβλ. Μνησίθ. παρ’ Ἀθην. 484Α, 334Β· κ. ἀφ’ ἡμέρας, de die potare, Πολύβ. 24, 5, 9· κεκωθωνισμένος, μεμεθυσμένος, Εὔβουλ. ἐν Ἀδήλ. 5, κτλ.
