inclementia

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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

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

inclēmentĭa: ae, f. inclemens,
I unmercifulness, rigor, harshness, roughness, severity (poet. and in post-class. prose): divum inclementia, divum, Has evertit opes, Verg. A. 2, 602: durae mortis, id. G. 3, 68: gravis fati, Stat. S. 1, 4, 50: maris, Claud. B. G. 210: caeli, Just. 9, 2: dirae formae (Plutonis), Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 82.