honeste
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
Latin > English
honeste ADV :: honorably; decently
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
hŏnestē: adv., v. honestus.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
hŏnestē⁹ (honestus),
1 d’une manière honorable, avec dignité : quæ in nostris rebus non satis honeste, in amicorum fiunt honestissime Cic. Læl. 57, actes, qui ne sont guère honorables s’il s’agit de nous, fort honorables s’il s’agit d’amis
2 honnêtement, vertueusement : beate et honeste vivere Cic. Rep. 4, 3, vivre dans le bonheur et la vertu || de façon belle, noble : fastigium honeste vergit in... Cic. Q. 3, 1, 14, le faîte a une belle inclinaison sur... || honeste geniti Liv. 26, 2, 11, de naissance honorable, cf. Suet. Aug. 43.
Latin > German (Georges)
honestē, Adv. (honestus), I) anständig, mit Anstand, mit Ehren, ehrenhaft, ehrenhalber (Ggstz. turpiter), cenare, Cic. u. Sall.: se gerere, Cic.: vivere, tugendhaft leben, Cic. u. Sall.: mori, Sen. u. Curt.: in pugna h. cadere, Cic. – minoris HS triciens praetorium hominem honeste non posse damnari, Cic.: h. dicere, ein Wort im guten Sinne gebrauchen, Non. 121, 21. – sinum ad ima crura deduxit, quo honestius caderet, Suet. – quae in nostris rebus non satis honeste, in amicorum fiunt honestissime, Cic. – v. Lebl., fastigium non honeste vergit in etc., Cic. – II) ehrbar = ansehnlich, h. geniti, von ehrbarer Abkunft, Liv. 26, 2, 11: u. so h. natus, Suet. Aug. 43, 3.
