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|Definition=ἡ, Dor. [[βωλά]] Decr.Byz. ap. <span class="bibl">D.18.90</span>, Aeol. [[βόλλα]] <span class="title">Schwyzer</span> 623.1 (ii B. C.), Plu.2.288b: acc. pl. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> βουλᾰς <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>534</span>: ([[βούλομαι]]):— [[will]], [[determination]], esp. of the gods, <span class="bibl">Il.1.5</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[counsel]], [[design]], βουλὰς βουλεύουσι <span class="bibl">Il.24.652</span>, etc.: generally, [[counsel]], [[advice]], opp. [[μάχεσθαι]], <span class="bibl">Il.1.258</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">2.202</span>, etc.; κακὴ β. <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>266</span>; πρᾶτος… καὶ βουλᾷ καὶ χερσὶν ἐς Ἄρεα <span class="title">IG</span>9(1).658 (Ithaca); νυκτὶ βουλὴν διδόναι <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.12</span> (but ἐν νυκτὶ β. διδοὺς ἐμαυτῷ <span class="bibl">Men.<span class="title">Epit.</span>35</span>); ἐν β. ἔχειν τὰ γενόμενα <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.78</span>; <b class="b3">β. ποιεῖσθαι</b>, = [[βουλεύεσθαι]], <span class="bibl">Id.6.101</span>, etc.; β. διδόναι <span class="bibl">X. <span class="title">Cyr.</span>7.2.26</span>; β. προτιθέναι περί τινος <span class="bibl">D.18.192</span>; β. ἄγειν <span class="bibl">Polyaen.7.39</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν βουλῇ γενέσθαι πότερον</b>… <span class="bibl">D.H.2.44</span>; <b class="b3">τούτοις οὐκ ἔστι κοινὴ β</b>. they have no common [[ground of argument]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Cri.</span>49d</span>; βουλῆς ὀρθότης ἡ εὐβουλία <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1142b16</span>: in pl., [[counsels]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>221</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Th.</span> 842</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">ἐν βουλαῖς ἄριστος, ἐν βουλαῖσι κράτιστος</b>, <span class="title">Epigr.Gr.</span>854, <span class="title">IG</span>3.716. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[deliberation]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1112a19</span>, <span class="bibl">D.9.46</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[decree]], β. εἰσηγεῖσθαι <span class="bibl">And.1.61</span>; β. ἄκυρον θεῖναι <span class="bibl">Id.2.28</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[Council of elders]], [[Senate]], βουλὴν ἷζε γερόντων <span class="bibl">Il.2.53</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Od.3.127</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>884</span>; esp. at Athens, <span class="title">Council</span> or [[Senate]] of <span class="bibl">500</span> created by [[Cleisthenes]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.9.5</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>590</span>, <span class="bibl">Antipho 6.40</span>, etc.; commonly called <b class="b3">ἡ β</b>. (or ἡ β. οἱ πεντακόσιοι <span class="bibl">Aeschin.3.20</span>, to distinguish it from <b class="b3">ἡ β. ἡ ἐν Ἀρείῳ πάγῳ</b> ibid.; also β. ἀπὸ κυάμου <span class="bibl">Th.8.66</span>); in other states, as at Argos, <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.149</span>; at Thebes, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>5.2.29</span>; of the Roman <span class="title">Senate</span>, <span class="bibl">D.H.6.69</span>, etc.; of local [[senates]], POxy.58.14 (iii A. D.), etc.; <b class="b3">βουλῆς εἶναι</b> to be [[of the Council]], [[a member of it]], <span class="bibl">Th.3.70</span> (whence Sch. and Suid. made a Subst. βουλῆς, ὁ) ; ἀνὴρ βουλῆς τῆς Ῥωμαίων <span class="bibl">Paus.5.20.8</span>; ἄνδρα ἐκ τῆς βουλῆς <span class="bibl">Id.7.11.1</span>.</span>

|auten=(1) [[counsel]], [[plan]], [[decree]]; βουλὴ δὲ κακὴ νίκησεν ἑταίρων, Od. 10.46; Διὸς δ' ἐτελείετο [[βουλή]], the ‘[[will]]’ of [[Zeus]], Il. 1.5 ; οὔ [[τοι]] [[ἄνευ]] θεοῦ [[ἥδε]] γε [[βουλή]], Od. 2.372, [[also]] in plural.—(2) the [[council]] of nobles or [[elders]], γερόντων, Il. 2.53, 1, 2, Od. 3.127, [[distinguished]] [[from]] the [[ἀγορά]], or [[assembly]].