βουλή, ἡ,
Doric dialect βωλά Decrees Byzantine cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.90 ] Refs 4th c.BC+], Aeolic dialect βόλλα [[ “Schwyzer” 623.1 (2nd c.BC), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.288b] Refs 2nd c.BC+]: accusative plural βουλᾰς [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 534 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: (βούλομαι):— will, determination, especially of the gods, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.5, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 counsel, design, βουλὰς βουλεύουσι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.652, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: generally, counsel, advice, opposed to μάχεσθαι, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.258, compare 2.202, etc.; κακὴ β. 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 266; πρᾶτος.. καὶ βουλᾷ καὶ χερσὶν ἐς Ἄρεα “IG” 9(1).658 (from Ithaca)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; νυκτὶ βουλὴν διδόναι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.12 (but ἐν νυκτὶ β. διδοὺς ἐμαυτῷ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 35); ἐν β. ἔχειν τὰ γενόμενα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.78 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. ποιεῖσθαι, ={βουλεύεσθαι}, [[ [prev. author] 6.101, etc.; β. διδόναι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.26; β. προτιθέναι περί τινος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.192; β. ἄγειν 2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 7.39 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν βουλῇ γενέσθαι πότερον.. [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.44 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; τούτοις οὐκ ἔστι κοινὴ β. they have no common ground of argument, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 49d; βουλῆς ὀρθότης ἡ εὐβουλία 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1142b16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in plural, counsels, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 221, “Th.” 842 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐν βουλαῖς ἄριστος, ἐν βουλαῖσι κράτιστος, [[ “epigram Gr.” 854, “IG” 3.716. ] Refs]