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When was the idea of "free will" born ?

I do research on freedom, and to do this I therefore sought the birth of the notion of free will, which is therefore I think a dualism with everything that has to do with vassalization.  The first sources that I find are texts written by Saint Augustine in the 350s. Do any of you have sources, any, that are older?
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I think Eva Brann’s book *Un-Willing*, which is basically a history of the concept of will, is a good overview. She agrees with the thesis that the first time we find the “fully-formed” concept of will is in Augustine, but she also goes into the precursors where we find indications of what will grow into the concept (and parts that are totally absent)—Aristotle, the Stoics, etc.