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πρόχειρ-ος , ον, (χείρ)
A.at hand, Hp.Art.11; π. ψάλια (v.l. ψέλια） δέρκεσθαι πάρα ready, A.Pr.54; π. ἄχθος a handy burden, S.El.1116; of a drawn sword or knife, Id.Ph.747, E.Hel.1564, El.696, X.Cyr.4.2.32; “ἔβαλλον λίθοις καὶ . . ἀκοντίοις, ὡς ἕκαστός τι π. εἶχεν” Th.4.34; ἁρπάζει μου ἀεὶ τὸ π. τῶν σκευῶν whatever furniture he can lay his hands on, PEnteux. 25.8 (iii B.C.); [“τὴν ἐπιστήμην] π. οὐκ εἶχε τῇ διανοίᾳ” Pl.Tht.198d; “οὓς π. εἶχον μύθους” Id.Phd.61b; τὰ κατὰ πάντων τῶν φιλοσοφούντων π. Id.Ap.23d; “εἰ οὖν σοι πρόχειρον, εἰπέ” Id.Min.313b; “ἔστι τις π. λόγος” D.20.112; “ὃ ἔχω προχειρότατον εἰπεῖν” Id.24.1; “τὸ προχειρότατον ποιεῖν” Isoc.11.9; τὰ π. τῶν ἀπόρων obvious difficulties, Arist. Metaph.982b13, cf. 1054b12; “τὰ προχειρότατα” Id.Pr.924a12, cf. Demetr.Lac.Herc.1012.35; ταῦτα γὰρ ὦν ἐστι προχειρότερον (sc. εὔξασθαι) Xenoph.1.16.
b. readily accessible, external parts of the body, Sor.1.17,69: Comp., Id.2.64,85.
2. common, ordinary, φαῦλα καὶ π. Pl.Tht.147a; “αἱ π. τῶν ἡδονῶν” Id.Phlb.45a.
b. πρὸς τῷ ἰδίῳ λόγῳ καὶ τοῖς π., official title in Egypt, Sammelb.7455 (i B.C.), BGU1756.8 (i B.C.), al.
3. πρόχειρόν [ἐστι] it is easy, c. inf., Pl. Sph.251b, Philem.24; “ψεύδεσθαι προχειρότατον τοῖς ἁμαρτάνουσιν” Lys. Fr.86; ἐν προχείρῳ [ἐστί], c. inf., Arist.Mete.356b19; ἐκ προχείρου easily, lightly, S.E.M.6.19, Gal.1.241.
II. of persons, ready to do, c. inf., S.El.1494; τῇ φυγῇ π. ready for flight, E.HF161; also “ἡ σπάνις π. εἰς τὸ δρᾶν κακά” Philem.157; “π. γλῶττα” Poll.6.120.
2. of a ready wit, ἐν ταῖς ὁμιλίαις εὔχαρις καὶ π. Plb.23.5.7; glib, Phld. Po.5.14; τὸ προπετὲς καὶ π. Hp.Medic.1.
3. hasty, σφοδρὸς καὶ π. Plu.Brut.34; “πνεῦμα οἷον τοῖσι πνιγομένοισι πρόχειρον” Hp.Prorrh. 1.25 (unless perceptible, obvious breathing, cf. “πρὸς χεῖρα” Epid.7.17).
III. Adv. -ρως offhand, readily, “ἀποκρίνασθαι” Pl.Smp. 204d; “περί τι π. ἔχειν” Arist.Top.163b25; “π. εἰς τὰ ἑαυτῶν σώματα ἐξαμαρτάνοντες” Aeschin.1.22; ἐπὶ τὰ πράγματα ὁρμᾶν π. Amphis 33.7; hurriedly, rashly, Theopomp.Hist.217（a), Plb.5.7.2; bluntly, “εἰπεῖν” Demetr.Eloc.281; ordinarily or obviously, “δηλούσης” Phld.Rh. 2.268 S. Comp. “-οτέρως” Pl.Alc.2.144d; “-ότερον τοῦ δέοντος” Plb.1.21.5.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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