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βουλώμεθα (boulometha)

βουλώμεθα is an Ancient Greek form of βούλομαι, meaning “to wish, want, prefer”. It is the 1st person plural present middle/passive subjunctive.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat 10·3: … ποφαίνων ἑαυτὸν ἀλλὰ μετὰ πολλῶν ὁμοίως δυνάμενον ἀμύνασθαι. ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ἱκανὰ περὶ διαφορᾶς, ἂν μὴ κἀκεῖνο βουλώμεθα προσλαβεῖν, ὅτι τῶν Τρώων ἑαλώκασι καὶ πολλοὶ ζῶντες, οὐδεὶς δὲ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν, καὶ τῶν μὲν ὑποπεπτώκασιν ἔνιοι τ …

All forms of βούλομαι (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.