χαόω
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 destroy utterly, swallow up, λέγων χαῶσαι αὐτόν Simp.in Epict.p.47 D.:—Pass., ἐν τῇ γῇ χαούμενος Olymp. in Mete.143.5.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1335] = ἀπόλλυμι, Simplic. u. a. Sp.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
χαόω: καταστρέφω παντελῶς, λέξις τῶν μεταγενεστέρων ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀπόλλυμι, Σιμπλ. Ἐπίκτ. 173, καὶ συχν. παρὰ τῷ Achmes ἐν Ὀνειρ. - Παθ., μεταβάλλομαι εἰς χάος, ὁλοσχερῶς καταστρέφομαι, «χάνομαι», οὔτε τις κτίσις τῆς πόλεως ἔμεινεν, ἀλλὰ πάντα ἐχαώθη Ἀθανάσ. τ. 2, σελ. 9D· καταπίνομαι ὑπὸ σεισμοῦ, ἐσχίσθη ἡ γῆ ὑπὸ τοῦ σεισμοῦ, καὶ ἐχαώθη τὸ ἥμισυ τῆς πόλεως μετὰ τῶν οἰκητόρων Ἰω. Μαλαλ. σ. 437, 19, κλπ.
