προθῡμ-ία,
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, readiness, willingness, eagerness, ᾗσι προθυμίῃσι [ῑ] pepoiqw/s [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.588 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to ἀθυμία, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.13; τῶν πέρι καί τινα ἐνάγει π. μαχόμενον ἀποθνῄσκειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.49; προθυμίας οὐδὲν ἐλλείπεις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 343; μηδὲν ἀπολείπειν π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 961c; οὐ μὴν ἀνήσω νῦν π. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 285; π. ἐμβαλεῖν τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.13, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πάσῃ π. with all zeal, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 412e; διὰ τὴν π. 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.20.15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑπὸ προθυμίας by my eagerness, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 91c: _plural_, τὰς ἄγαν π. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 708. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 with genitive person, ἐκ τῆς Κλεομένεος π. at his desire, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.65, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1329 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ τὴν τούτου π. as far as his desire goes, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.124 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῦ θεοῦ προθυμίᾳ by the will of the god, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1385; also ἡ ἐμὴ π. 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.99. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 with genitive objecti, πᾶσαν π. σωτηρίης.. παρεχόμενοι showing the utmost zeal to save it, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.98 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ἔργου readiness for action, will or purpose to act, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 669, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 616; π. τοῦ ἐθέλειν κινδυνεύειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 697d, compare 935d, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]