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ἐβουλόμην (eboulomen)

ἐβουλόμην is an Ancient Greek form of βούλομαι, meaning “to wish, want, prefer”. It is the 1st person singular imperfect middle/passive indicative.

Found 129 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 456: ὀργὰς ἀφῄρουν καί σ’ ἐβουλόμην μένειν·

New Testament, Acts 25.22: Ἀγρίππας δὲ πρὸς τὸν Φῆστον Ἐβουλόμην καὶ αὐτὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἀκοῦσαι. Αὔριον, φησίν, ἀκούσῃ αὐτοῦ.

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.