βουλή

βουλή, ἡ, [dialect] Dor. [full] βωλά Decr.Byz. ap. D.18.90, [dialect] Aeol. [full] βόλλα Schwyzer 623.1 (ii B. C.), Plu.2.288b: acc. pl.

A

βουλᾰς Hes.Th.534

: ([etym.] 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

([place name] 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. [full] βουλῆς, ὁ)

; ἀνὴρ βουλῆς τῆς Ῥωμαίων Paus.5.20.8

;

ἄνδρα ἐκ τῆς βουλῆς Id.7.11.1

.