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προθυ_μ-ία , Ion. -ιη, ἡ,
A.readiness, willingness, eagerness, ᾗσι προθυμίῃσι [ι_] πεποιθώς Il.2.588; opp. ἀθυμία, X.Cyr.1.6.13; “τῶν πέρι καί τινα ἐνάγει π. μαχόμενον ἀποθνῄσκειν” Hdt.5.49; “προθυμίας οὐδὲν ἐλλείπεις” A.Pr.343; “μηδὲν ἀπολείπειν π.” Pl.Lg.961c; “οὐ μὴν ἀνήσω νῦν π.” E.Hipp.285; “π. ἐμβαλεῖν τινι” X. Cyr.1.6.13, etc.; πάσῃ π. with all zeal, Pl.R.412e; “διὰ τὴν π.” Plb.1.20.15; ὑπὸ προθυμίας by my eagerness, Pl.Phd.91c: pl., “τὰς ἄγαν π.” E.Or.708.
2. c. gen. pers., ἐκ τῆς Κλεομένεος π. at his desire, Hdt. 6.65, cf. E.Hipp.1329; κατὰ τὴν τούτου π. as far as his desire goes, Hdt.1.124; τοῦ θεοῦ προθυμίᾳ by the will of the god, E.Ion 1385; also “ἡ ἐμὴ π.” Lys.12.99.
3. c. gen. objecti, πᾶσαν π. σωτηρίης . . παρεχόμενοι showing the utmost zeal to save it, Hdt.4.98; π. ἔργου readiness for action, will or purpose to act, S.Tr.669, cf. E. IT616; “π. τοῦ ἐθέλειν κινδυνεύειν” Pl.Lg.697d, cf. 935d, etc.
4. π. ἔχειν, = προθυμεῖσθαι, Hdt.7.19, 53:c. inf., “ἔσχε π. στρατεύσασθαι” Id.1.204, cf. E.Tr.689; “πᾶσαν π. ἔχειν” Pl.Prt.327b, cf. 361c: also c. part., “ἔφη πᾶσαν π. σχεῖν δεόμενος” Id.Ti.23d; also “π. ἔχειν ὅπως . .” Id.Mx. 247a.
II. goodwill, ready kindness, “Ἑλλήνων εἵνεκα ἔργον . . ἔργασμαι ὑπὸ προθυμίης” Hdt.9.45; “εἴς τινας” X.HG6.5.43; πλείστην π. περὶ ὑμᾶς, π. πολλὴν περί σε, Id.An.7.6.11, 7.7.45; “ὑπέρ τινων” D.1.8; “π. ἐδείξαμεν” Th.1.74.
III. desire of natural functions, Sor.1.66, 2.20,45; “πρὸς τὸ κνᾶσθαι” Herod.Med. ap. Aët.5.129.
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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