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vellet

vellet is a Latin form of volo, meaning “want, wish, be willing”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active subjunctive.

Found 660 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.14.3: Quod si veteris contumeliae oblivisci vellet, num etiam recentium iniuriarum, quod eo invito iter per provinciam per vim temptassent, quod Haeduos, quod Ambarros, quod Allobrogas vexassent, memoriam deponere posse?

Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.247: Vellet abesse quidem, sed adest; velletque videre,

Suetonius, Divus Julius 41.2: … titus est, ut exceptis consulatus conpetitoribus de cetero numero candidatorum pro parte dimidia quos populus uellet pronuntiarentur, pro parte altera quos ipse dedisset. et edebat per libellos circum tribum missos scriptura b …

All forms of volo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.