βούλεσθε (boulesthe)

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

Found 221 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.53.4: ‘οὔτε ἄρχομεν πολέμου, ὦ ἄνδρες Πελοποννήσιοι, οὔτε τὰς σπονδὰς λύομεν, Κερκυραίοις δὲ τοῖσδε ξυμμάχοις οὖσι βοηθοὶ ἤλθομεν. εἰ μὲν οὖν ἄλλοσέ ποι βούλεσθε πλεῖν, οὐ κωλύομεν· εἰ δὲ ἐπὶ Κέρκυραν πλευσεῖσθε ἢ ἐς τῶν ἐκείνων τι χωρίων, οὐ περιοψόμεθα κατὰ τὸ δυνατόν.’

Euripides, Heracleidae 549: ἀλλʼ, εἰ μὲν ἐνδέχεσθε καὶ βούλεσθέ μοι

Lucian of Samosata, Scytha 9: Βούλεσθε οὖν ἐπαγάγω ἤδη τῷ μύθῳ τὸ τέλος, ὡς μὴ ἀκέφαλος περινοστοίη; ὥρα γοῦν εἰδέναι οὗτινός μοι εἵνεκα ὁ Ἀνάχαρσις …

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.