[*] 380. First Person: Here “βούλει” often precedes. “θέλεις”, thus used, is poetical. “ΣΩ. ὦ Χαιρεφῶν, ἐροῦ αὐτόν. ΧΑΙ. τί ἔρωμαι”; PLATO, Gorg. 447C; Chaerephon, ask him. What shall I ask? “βούλει τολμήσω εἰπεῖν οἷόν ἐστι τὸ ἐπίστασθαι”; PLATO, Theaet. 197A; Do you wish me to undertake to say what manner of thing knowing is? DEM.3.22: ““τί βούλεσθε; τί γράψω; τί ὑμῖν χαρίσωμαι”;” 14.27: “ἀλλὰ θῶ βούλεσθε δωδεκάτην ἡμᾶς εἰσοίσειν”; [33]DEM., 37. PLATO, Conv. 213A: “ἐπὶ ῥητοῖς εἰσίω ἢ μή; συμπίεσθε ἢ οὔ”; Ibid. 214 B: “ΕΡ. τί ποιῶμεν; ΑΛΚ. ὅ τι ἂν σὺ κελεύῃς . . . ἐπίταττε οὖν ὅ τι βούλει”. Gorg. 447 C (see above). Phaedo 115 C: “θάπτωμεν δέ σε τίνα τρόπον”; Theaet. 149B, 161 E. 197 A (see above). AR. Eq. 36: “βούλει τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῖς θεαταῖσιν φράσω”; Vesp. 760-1: “ΒΔΕ. ἐμοὶ πιθοῦ”. | “ΦΙΛ. τί σοι πίθωμαι”; Lys. 529-30: “ΛΥΣ. σιώπα. ΠΡΟ. σοί γ̓, ὦ κατάρατε, σιωπῶ 'γώ;” EUR. Cycl. 149. Ion, 758 (268). I. T. 1321. Or. 218: “βούλει θίγω σου;” fr. 1036: “πότερα θέλεις σοι μαλθακὰ ψευδῆ λέγω” | “ἢ σκλήρ᾽ ἀληθῆ”; SOPH. Ant. 554. O. C. 178. 195. 213. 828 (twice). Ph. 761 (twice). 816. HOM. Od. 15.509: “πῇ τ᾽ ἄῤ ἐγώ, φίλε τέκνον, ἴω; τέο δώμαθ̓ ἵκωμαι”; Il. 18.188: “πῶς τ᾽ ἄῤ ἴω μετὰ μῶλον; ἔχουσι δὲ τεύχἐ ἐκεῖνοι”.
Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. New York. American Book Company. 1900.
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