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προθυμεῖσθαι (prothymeisthai)

προθυμεῖσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of προθυμέομαι, meaning “be eager”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.3.13: … , τί ἂν ποιοίης; δῆλον ὅτι καὶ τοῦτον πρότερος ὑποδεχοίμην ἄν, ὁπότε ἔλθοι Ἀθήναζε· καὶ εἴ γε βουλοίμην αὐτὸν προθυμεῖσθαι διαπράττειν μοι ἐφʼ ἃ ἥκοιμι, δῆλον ὅτι καὶ τοῦτο δέοι ἂν πρότερον αὐτὸν ἐκείνῳ ποιεῖν.

Plato, Laws 9.859: … ώμεθα κατιδεῖν τὸ τοιόνδε, ὅπῃ ποτὲ ὁμολογοῦμεν νῦν καὶ ὅπῃ διαφερόμεθα ἡμεῖς τε ἡμῖν αὐτοῖς, οἳ δὴ φαῖμεν ἂν προθυμεῖσθαί γε, εἰ μηδὲν ἄλλο, διαφέρειν τῶν πλείστων, οἱ πολλοί τε αὐτοὶ πρὸς αὑτοὺς αὖ. τὰς ποίας δὲ δὴ διαφορὰς ἡμῶν ἐ …

All forms of προθυμέομαι (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.