κατῆλιψ
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)
ῐφος, ἡ, variously expld. as
A ladder, roof-beam, upper story, etc. in Ar.Ra.566, cf. Sch.ad loc., Poll.7.123, Hsch.; also used by Luc.Lex.8.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1400] ιφος, ἡ, das obere Geschoß des Hauses, Ar. Ran. 566, Schol. ἡ μέσοδμος, VLL. erkl. τὴν μέσην στέγην, Andere erkl. τὴν κλίμακα, vgl. Luc. Lex. 8. Die Ableitung ist dunkel, gew. führt man es auf ἦλιψ, Schuh, Sockel, zurück, vgl. Choerob. in B. A. 1200 u. Lob. Paralipp. 290.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
κατῆλιψ: ῐφος, ἡ, Δωρικ. κατᾶλιψ, τὸ ἄνω πάτωμα οἰκίας, Ἀριστοφ. Βάτρ. 566· ἕτεροι λαμβάνουσι τὴν λέξιν ὡς σημαίνουσαν κλίμακα (ὡς φαίνεται ὅτι δέον νὰ ἐκληφθῇ ἐν Λουκ. Λεξιφ. 8)· ἕτεροι δὲ ὡς σημαίνουσαν τὴν στέγην. (Δύσκολος εἶνε ἡ συσχέτισις τῆς λέξεως πρὸς τὸ ἦλιψ, πέδιλον, ἴδε Λοβ. Παραλ. 290, ὁ Ἡσύχ. ἔχει «ἄλιψ ἢ ἆλιψ· πέτρα»).
