ἑτοιμοτόμοι

From LSJ

Ἀλλ' ὑπ' ἐλπίδων ἄνδρας τὸ κέρδος πολλάκις διώλεσεν → But the profit-motive has destroyed many people in their hope for gain

Sophocles, Antigone, 221-2

German (Pape)

[Seite 1053] χεῖρες, zum Schneiden bereit, Antip. Th. 40 (IX, 282).