μεταλλευτής
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)
οῦ, ὁ,
A one who searches for metals or water, miner, Str.9.2.18, 15.1.30, Man.4.259. 2 metallurgist, Procl.Par.Ptol.250 (pl.).
German (Pape)
[Seite 149] ὁ, der nach Metallen und andern Fossilien, auch Wasser unter der Erde sucht, der Bergmann, Minirer, Strab. IX, 407 u. a. Sp., wie Man. 4, 259; – μεταλλευτὴς λίθων, Moeris.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
μεταλλευτής: -οῦ, ὁ, ὁ ἀναζητῶν μέταλλα ἢ ὕδωρ, μεταλλουργός, Στράβ. 407, 700· ― Ποιητ. μεταλλευτήρ, Παύλ. Σιλ. Ἔκφρασ. 621.
French (Bailly abrégé)
οῦ (ὁ) :
mineur.
Étymologie: μεταλλεύω.
