ἐβουλεύετο (ebouleueto)

ἐβουλεύετο is an Ancient Greek form of βουλεύω, meaning “plan, deliberate, advise; (mid.) resolve”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect middle/passive indicative.

Found 66 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.8.4: ἀπολεξάμενος οὖν αὐτὸς πεντήκοντα καὶ ἑκατὸν ὁπλίτας καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους Κλεαρίδᾳ προστάξας ἐβουλεύετο ἐπιχειρεῖν αἰφνιδίως πρὶν ἀπελθεῖν τοὺς Ἀθηναίους, οὐκ ἂν νομίζων αὐτοὺς ὁμοίως ἀπολαβεῖν αὖθις μεμονωμένους, …

Aesop, Fables 243: … γαθά σοι ἦλθον μηνῦσαι· οἶδας, ὡς ὁ βασιλεὺς ἡμῶν λέων γείτων μοί ἐστι· νοσεῖ δὲ καὶ ἐγγύς ἐστι τοῦ θνήσκειν. Ἐβουλεύετο οὖν, ποῖον τῶν θηρίων μετʼ αὐτὸν βασιλεύσει. Ἔφη δὲ, ὅτι σῦς μέν ἐστιν ἀγνώμων, ἄρκτος δὲ νωθρὰ, πάρδαλις δὲ …

All forms of βουλεύω (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.