βούλησθε (boulesthe)

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

Found 57 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Aristophanes, Birds 1111: κἂν λαχόντες ἀρχίδιον εἶθʼ ἁρπάσαι βούλησθέ τι,

Xenophon, Hellenica 1.7.19: … οἷς οὔθʼ ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ οὔθʼ ὑπʼ ἄλλου οὐδενὸς ἔστιν ἐξαπατηθῆναι ὑμᾶς, καὶ τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας εἰδότες κολάσεσθε ᾗ ἂν βούλησθε δίκῃ, καὶ ἅμα πάντας καὶ καθʼ ἕνα ἕκαστον, εἰ μὴ πλέον, ἀλλὰ μίαν ἡμέραν δόντες αὐτοῖς ὑπὲρ αὑτῶν ἀπολογήσασθ …

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.