μολυβδοκόπος
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)
ὁ, ἡ,
A one who inscribes curses on leaden plates, Tab.Defix.100A13.
German (Pape)
[Seite 200] ὁ, Bleischläger, Inscr. 539.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
μολυβδοκόπος: ὁ, ὁ σφυρηλατῶν πλάκας ἐκ μολύβδου, Συλλ. Ἐπιγρ. 539· - περὶ τῆς χρήσεως τοιούτων πλακῶν εἰς ἀναθηματικὰς ἐπιγραφὰς καὶ ἀρὰς ἴδε Newton Ἁλικ. σ. 720 κἑξ.
Greek Monolingual
μολυβδοκόπος, ό, ἡ (Α)
αυτός που σφυρηλατεί πλάκες από μόλυβδο ή αυτός που γράφει αναθηματικές επιγραφές.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < μόλυβδος + -κόπος].
