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βουλή , ἡ, Dor. βωλά Decr.Byz. ap. D.18.90, Aeol. βόλλα Schwyzer 623.1 (ii B. C.), Plu.2.288b: acc. pl.
A.“βουλα?́ς” Hes.Th.534: (βούλομαι):— will, determination, esp. of the gods, Il.1.5, etc.
2. counsel, design, “βουλὰς βουλεύουσι” Il.24.652, etc.: generally, counsel, advice, opp. μάχεσθαι, Il.1.258, cf. 2.202, etc.; “κακὴ β.” Hes.Op.266; “πρᾶτος . . καὶ βουλᾷ καὶ χερσὶν ἐς Ἄρεα” IG9(1).658 (Ithaca); “νυκτὶ βουλὴν διδόναι” Hdt.7.12 (but “ἐν νυκτὶ β. διδοὺς ἐμαυτῷ” Men.Epit.35); “ἐν β. ἔχειν τὰ γενόμενα” Hdt.3.78; β. ποιεῖσθαι, = βουλεύεσθαι, Id.6.101, etc.; “β. διδόναι” X. Cyr.7.2.26; “β. προτιθέναι περί τινος” D.18.192; “β. ἄγειν” Polyaen.7.39; ἐν βουλῇ γενέσθαι πότερον . . D.H.2.44; τούτοις οὐκ ἔστι κοινὴ β. they have no common ground of argument, Pl.Cri.49d; “βουλῆς ὀρθότης ἡ εὐβουλία” Arist.EN1142b16: in pl., counsels, A.Pr.221, Th. 842 (lyr.); ἐν βουλαῖς ἄριστος, ἐν βουλαῖσι κράτιστος, Epigr.Gr.854, IG3.716.
3. deliberation, Arist.EN1112a19, D.9.46.
4. decree, “β. εἰσηγεῖσθαι” And.1.61; “β. ἄκυρον θεῖναι” Id.2.28.
II. Council of elders, Senate, “βουλ ὴν ἷζε γερόντων” Il.2.53, cf. Od.3.127, A.Ag.884; esp. at Athens, Council or Senate of 500 created by Cleisthenes, Hdt.9.5, Ar.V.590, Antipho 6.40, etc.; commonly called ἡ β. (or “ἡ β. οἱ πεντακόσιοι” Aeschin.3.20, to distinguish it from ἡ β. ἡ ἐν Ἀρείῳ πάγῳ ibid.; also “β. ἀπὸ κυάμου” Th.8.66); in other states, as at Argos, Hdt.7.149; at Thebes, X.HG5.2.29; of the Roman Senate, D.H.6.69, etc.; of local senates, POxy.58.14 (iii A. D.), etc.; βουλῆς εἶναι to be of the Council, a member of it, Th.3.70 (whence Sch. and Suid. made a Subst. βουλῆς , ὁ）“; ἀνὴρ βουλῆς τῆς Ῥωμαίων” Paus.5.20.8; “ἄνδρα ἐκ τῆς βουλῆς” Id.7.11.1.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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