βούλοιο (bouloio)

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

Found 53 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Hecuba 1206: ὁ χρυσός, εἰ βούλοιο τἀληθῆ λέγειν,

Plato, Phaedo 101·2: … ἅμα δὲ οὐκ ἂν φύροιο ὥσπερ οἱ ἀντιλογικοὶ περί τε τῆς ἀρχῆς διαλεγόμενος καὶ τῶν ἐξ ἐκείνης ὡρμημένων, εἴπερ βούλοιό τι τῶν ὄντων εὑρεῖν; ἐκείνοις μὲν γὰρ ἴσως οὐδὲ εἷς περὶ τούτου λόγος οὐδὲ φροντίς· ἱκανοὶ γὰρ ὑπὸ σοφίας ὁμο …

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.