I.to take counsel, deliberate, concert measures, and in past tenses to have considered and so to determine, resolve:
1.absol., οἷος ἔην βουλευέμεν ἠδὲ μάχεσθαι such as he was in council and in battle, Od.; ἔς γε μίαν βουλεύσομεν [sc. βουλήν] we shall agree to one plan, id=Od.:—in Prose, this sense belongs chiefly to the Mid.
2.c. acc. rei, to deliberate on, plan, devise, Od., Hdt., attic:—Pass. with fut. mid., aor1 ἐβουλεύθην: perf. βεβούλευμαι:— to be determined or resolved on, Aesch., etc.; τὰ βεβουλευμένα ῀ βουλεύματα, Hdt.
3.c. inf. to resolve to do, Od., Hdt.
III.in polit. writers, to be a member of Council, Hdt.; esp. of the Council of 500 at Athens, Plat., Xen., etc.
1.absol. to take counsel with oneself, deliberate, Hdt., attic
2.c. acc. rei, to determine with oneself, resolve on, Il., Hdt.
