A.“ἐβούλευσα” Od.5.23, etc., Ep. “βούλ-” Il.14.464: pf. “βεβούλευκα” S.OT701:—Med. and Pass., v. infr.: (βουλή):—take counsel, deliberate, in past tenses, determine or resolve after deliberation:
1. abs., “ὣς βουλεύσαντε” Il. 1.531; βουλευέμεν ἠδὲ μάχεσθαι in council or in battle, Od.14.491; “β. ὅπως ὄχ᾽ ἄριστα γένοιτο” 9.420, cf. 11.229; “δυσμενέεσσι φόνου πέρι β.” 16.234; ἔς γε μίαν βουλεύσομεν (sc. βουλήν) we shall agree to one plan, Il.2.379; “θυμῷ β.” Od.12.58; “β. περί τινος” Hdt.1.120, Th.3.28, 5.116: in Prose, chiefly Med. in this sense, v. infr. B.
2. c. acc. rei, deliberate on, plan, devise, “β. βουλάς” Il.24.652, al.; οὐ . . τοῦτον μὲν ἐβούλευσας νόον αὐτή; Od.5.23; “ὁδόν” 1.444; “φύξιν” Il.10.311,398; “κέρδεα” Od.23.217; “ψεύδεα” 14.296: c. dat. pers., “τῷ γάρ ῥα θεοὶ βούλευσαν ὄλεθρον” Il. 14.464, cf. Hdt.9.110; “θάνατόν τινι” Pl.Lg.872a; “β. πῆμά τινι” Od.5.179, etc.; “κέλευθον” A.Pers.758; “ποινάς” Id.Ag.1223; “νεώτερα β. περί τινος” Hdt.1.210:—Pass. (with fut. Med., A.Th.198), aor. “ἐβουλεύθην” Hdt. 7.157, Th.1.120, Pl.R.442b: pf. βεβούλευμαι (usu. in med. sense, v. infr. B):—to be determined or planned, “ψῆφος κατ᾽ αὐτῶν βουλεύσεται” A. l.c.; “βεβούλευται τάδε” Id.Pr.998, cf. Hdt.7.10.δ́; τὰ βεβουλευμένα, = βουλεύματα, Id.4.128; “τὰ βουλευόμενα” X.Cyr.6.2.2; “πῶς σφῷν βεβούλευται” Pl.Euthd.274a.
3. c. inf., take counsel, resolve to do, “τὸν μὲν ἐγὼ βούλευσα . . οὐτάμεναι” Od.9.299, cf. Hdt.1.73, 6.52,61, etc.:— Pass., “τοῖσι ἐβεβούλευτο τὸ παιδίον προσουδίσαι” Id.5.92.γ́.
II. give counsel, “τὰ λῷστα β.” A.Pr.206; “β. δυνατός” Pl.Lg.694b: c. dat. pers., advise, “ἵνα σφίσι βουλεύησθα” Il.9.99, cf. A.Eu.697.
III. sit in council, of the Spartan γέροντες, Hdt.6.57; to be a member of a βουλή, Arist.Pol.1282a30; esp. of the Council of 500 at Athens, Antipho 6.45, And.1.75, X.Mem.1.1.18, Arist.Ath.62.3; “ἡ βουλὴ ἡ βουλεύουσα” Lys.13.19; βουλὴν β. to be a member of the β., ib.20; “βουλεύειν λαχών” Pl.Grg.473e.
B. Med., fut. “-εύσομαι” A.Ag.846, Ch.718, Th.1.43, Pl.Smp. 174d: aor. “ἐβουλευσάμην” S.OT537, etc.; Ep. “βουλ-” Il.2.114; “ἐβουλεύθην” D.H.15.7: pf. “βεβούλευμαι” Hdt.3.134, S.El.385, Th.1.69, E.Supp.248, Pl.Chrm.176c (also in pass. sense, v. supr.):—more freq. in Att. Prose than Act.,
1. abs., take counsel with oneself, deliberate, Hdt.7.10.δ́, Arist.EN1112b11,20; “παραχρῆμα οὐδὲ -σάμενος” D.37.13; “ἅμα τινί” Hdt.8.101; “περὶ τοῦ μέλλοντος τῶν οἰκείων” Th.3.44, cf. Pl.Phdr.231a; “περί τι” Id.R.604c; ὑπέρ τινος ib.428d; “πρὸς τὴν γεγενημένην ξυμφοράν” Th.7.47: c. acc. cogn., “β. βούλευμα” And.3.29; “βουλήν” Pl.Plt.298b, etc.; “ἴσον τι ἢ δίκαιον” Th.2.44:—also like Act., take counsel, “πρός τινας” LXX 4 Ki.6.8.
2. act as member of council, and so originate measures, “β. καὶ κρίνειν” Arist.Pol.1281b31; τὸ βουλευόμενον ib.1291a28.
3. c. acc. rei, determine with oneself, resolve on, “κακὴν ἀπάτην βουλεύσατο” Il.2.114 (Med. here only in Hom.); “ἀλλοῖόν τι περί τινος” Hdt.5.40, cf. Pl.Ap.32c.
4. c. inf., resolve to do, Hdt.3.134, Pl.Chrm.176c.
5. rarely folld. by Relat., β. ὅ τι ποιήσεις ibid.; β. ὅπως . . with subj., X.Cyr.1.4.13; β. πῶς τις, c. fut., Id.An.3.4.40; “πῶς καὶ τί πρακτέον εἴη” Plb.1.33.3; “ἵνα” Ev.Jo.12.10.
