ἀσφοδελός
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
German (Pape)
[Seite 382] Asphodelus hervorbringend; ἀσφοδελὸς λειμών, die Asphodelos-Wiese, in der Unterwelt; Hom. dreimal, κατ' ἀσφοδελὸν λειμῶνα Versende Od. 11, 539. 573. 24, 13; H. Merc. 221.
French (Bailly abrégé)
οῦ;
adj. m.
plein d’asphodèles, où croissent les asphodèles.
Étymologie: ἀσφόδελος.
English (Autenrieth)
λειμών, the asphodel meadow, in the nether world, Od. 11.539. (The asphodel is a liliaceous plant, with pale bluish flowers; it was planted about graves in Greece by the ancients as now.) (Od.)
