promptitude

From LSJ

Μισῶ γε μέντοι χὤταν ἐν κακοῖσί τις ἁλοὺς ἔπειτα τοῦτο καλλύνειν θέλῃ → I hate it when someone is caught in the midst of their evil deeds and tries to gloss over them

Sophocles, Antigone, 495-496

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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substantive

quickness: P. and V. τάχος, τό.

zeal: P. and V. σπουδή, ἡ, προθυμία, ἡ.