readiness Copy link Outline I. Quickness, activity of body or mindII. The state of being ready, promptitude • readiness: I. Quickness, activity of body or mind: făcĭlĭtas: r. rather than power, facilitas magis quam facultas, Plin. Ep. 6, 29: Quintil. gives facilitas as the equiv. of ἕξις, 10, 1, 1. Phr.: r. of speech, volubilitas linguae (fluency), Cic. Planc. 25, 62: a prompt r. in replying, prompta et parata in respondendo celeritas, Cic. Brut. 42, 54: r. of speech, facilitas, Cic. Or. 6, 21. II. The state of being ready, promptitude: to have in r., paratum, expeditum habere, Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 118; promptum in lingua h., Sall. Cat. 10: what each man had in r., quod cuique promptum, Tac. Ann. 1, 71 (I will speak) what I have in r., quae mihi sunt in promptu, Cic. Acad. 1, 2, 4 to have in r., in promptu habere, id. Off. 1, 30, 105: things are in complete r., paratissima sunt, id. Fam. 4, 13, ad fin.: to have the troops in r., in expedito copias habere, Liv. 36, 16: to have the cash in r., pecuniam numeratam in praesentia habere, Cic. Verr. 5, 7, 17: of the utmost r. in setting forth truth, veritatis exhibendae promptissimus, Gell. 10, 22: with the utmost r., animo lubentissimo, Cic. Verr. Act. 1, 9, 25. Phr.: to have in r., ad manum habere, Quint. 12, 5, 1: to have a stock of eloquence in r., tanquam in procinctu paratam habere eloquentiam, Quint. 10, 1, 2: all the money I had in r., omne aurum quod fuit prae manu, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 2, 13.