φύζα
From LSJ
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)
(not φῦζα, Hdn.Gr.1.251), ἡ, expld. as ἡ μετὰ δειλίας φυγή by Aristarch. ap. Apollon.Lex.
A s.v. φόβος:—headlong flight, rout, φύζα, φόβον κρυόεντος ἑταίρη Il.9.2, cf. 14.140; ἀνάλκιδα φύζαν ἐνόρσας 15.62; θάνατον καὶ φ. ἑταίρων 17.381; ἐν δὲ Ζεὺς . . φύζαν ἐμοῖς ἑτάροισι κακὴν βάλεν Od.14.269.
