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ἐβούλου (eboulou)

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

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.5.35: … , εἶπεν, ἡ φύσις. οἱ δὲ τοῦτʼ Ἀναξαγόρου φασί. τῆς γυναικὸς εἰπούσης, ἀδίκως ἀποθνήσκεις, σὺ δέ, ἔφη, δικαίως ἐβούλου; ὄναρ δόξας τινὰ αὐτῷ λέγειν, ἤματί κεν τριτάτῳ Φθίην ἐρίβωλον ἵκοιο, πρὸς Αἰσχίνην ἔφη, εἰς τρίτην ἀποθανοῦμ …

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.