βούλεσθʼ (boulesth)

βούλεσθʼ is an Ancient Greek form of βούλομαι, meaning “to wish, want, prefer”. It is the 2nd person plural present middle/passive indicative.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.41: … ιῄει λέγων ἄνθρωπον ζητῶ. εἱστήκει ποτε κατακρουνιζόμενος· τῶν δὲ περιεστώτων ἐλεούντων, παρὼν Πλάτων ἔφη, εἰ βούλεσθʼ αὐτὸν ἐλεῆσαι, ἀπόστητε, ἐνδεικνύμενος φιλοδοξίαν αὐτοῦ. ἐντρίψαντος αὐτῷ κόνδυλόν τινος, Ἡράκλεις, ἔφη, οἷόν …

Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1197: Βούλεσθʼ, Ἀχαιοί, πλεῖν Φρυγῶν ἐπὶ χθόνα;

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.