ἀπονωτίζω
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)
A turn one's back and flee, S.Fr.713; trans. in causal sense, ἀ. τινὰς φυγῇ E.Ba.763.
German (Pape)
[Seite 317] den Rücken abkehren, wie Hesych. aus Soph. frg. 638 ἀπενώτισαν erkl.: ἀπέστρεψαν τὰ νῶτα; dah. φυγῇ τινα, Elnen in die Flucht schlagen, Eur. Bacch. 762.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀπονωτίζω: ἀναγκάζω τινὰ νὰ στρέψῃ τὰ νῶτα καὶ φύγῃ, Σοφ. Ἀποσπ. 638· ἐτραυμάτιζον κἀπενώτιζον φυγῇ γυναῖκες ἄνδρας Εὐρ. Βάκχ. 763, πρβλ. Ἡσύχ. ἐν λέξει.
