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voluisset

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

Found 111 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.13.3: Is ita cum Caesare egit: si pacem populus Romanus cum Helvetiis faceret, in eam partem ituros atque ibi futuros Helvetios ubi eos Caesar constituisset atque esse voluisset;

Livy, Ab urbe condita 22.14.9: si hoc modo peragrando cacumina saltusque M. Furius recipere a Gallis urbem uoluisset, quo hic nouus Camillus, nobis dictator unicus in rebus adfectis quaesitus, Italiam ab Hannibale reciperare parat, Gallorum Roma esset,

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.