pecu
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
pecu pecus N N :: herd, flock; cattle, sheep; farm animals (pl.); pastures (L+S); money
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
pĕcu: (dat. pecui, Lucil. ap. Gell. infra; plur.: pecua, pecuda;
I gen. pecuum, Cato ap. Gell. 7, 3, 37: pecubus, Lucr. 6, 1132), n. v. pecus, cattle, esp. the larger kinds (mostly ante-class.): pastor harum dormit, quom eunt sic a pecu palitantes, the flock, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 5: ne balant quidem, quom a pecu cetero apsunt, id. ib. 5, 2, 20: luna muribus fibras Et pecui addit, Lucil. ap. Gell. 20, 8, 4.—In plur.: pastores pecuaque salva servassis, an old formula of prayer in Cato, R. R. 141, 3: homines, pecua beluasque, Naev. ap. Non. 159, 6; so Att. ib. 9; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 3; Liv. 35, 21, 6: (asinus) non generatur in Ponto, nec aequinoctio verno, ut cetera pecua admittitur, Plin. 8, 43, 68, § 167: pecua ruri pascere, Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 11.—
II Transf.
A Plur.: pecua, the places where cattle are kept, pastures, etc.: cum hostium copiae non longe absunt, pecua relinquuntur, agri cultura deseritur, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 6, 15 Halm ad loc.: Italia contremuit, statim pecua agrique deserta, Claud. Mam. Or. 2, 10.—
B Money (cf. pecunia): pecua in cruminā defero, Plaut. Truc. 5, 64: pecuum, Cato ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 246 Müll.: greges pecuum, Host. ap. Prisc. p. 719 P.—
C Pecu squamosum, i. e. fish, Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 5 (but in Lucr. 6, 1132, the correct read. is pigris balantibus; v. Lachm. ad h. l.).
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
pĕcu,¹³ n., indécl., bétail, troupeau : Pl. Bacch. 1123 ; 1139 ; Rud. 942 || [employé surtout au pl.] pecŭa, ŭum, ŭbus : Cato Agr. 141, 3 ; Fest. 246 ; Lucr. 6, 1131 ; Cic. *Pomp. 15. ancien dat. pecui Lucil. d. Gell. 20, 8, 4.
Latin > German (Georges)
pecu, Dat. ū, Abl. ū, Plur. Nom. u. Akk. pecua, Genet. pecuum, Dat. pecubus (altind. pá u, gotisch faíhu, ahd. fihu), n. (verwandt mit pecus), das Vieh, als Gattung, luna muribus fibras et pecu (Marx iecur) addit, Lucil. 1201: cum eunt sic a pecu palitantes, Plaut. Bacch. 1123: cum a pecu cetero absunt, ibid. 1139a G.: non vides referre me uvidum rete, sine squamoso pecu? Plaut. rud. 942. – Plur., Varro, Cic. u.a. (s. Halm Cic. de imp. Pomp. 15. p. 113 sqq.).
