ὑπερβολικός
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)
ή, όν,
A hyperbolical, extravagant, Plb.18.46.13; ὑ. σχήματα exaggerated attitudes, Gal.18(2).57: fem. as Subst., μηδεμίαν ὑπερβολικὴν ποιουμένοις committing no extravagance, Milet. 7.69 (Didyma, ii B. C.). Adv. -κῶς, ὑ. ἀποφαίνεσθαι Plb.2.62.9, cf. Phld.Mus.p.72 K., Gal.17(2).209, al.; -ώτερον εἰπεῖν Plb.7.11.8.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1193] ή, όν, übertrieben, übermäßig, hyperbolisch, εὐχαριστία Pol. 18, 29, 13, u. Sp., bes. Gramm. u. Rhett.; auch adv., μικρῷ ὑπερβολικώτερον εἰπεῖν Pol. 7, 12, 8.
