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|lshtext=<b>vŏlo</b>: (<br /><b>I</b> d pers. [[sing]]. vīs, orig. veis, Prisc. 9, 1, 6, p. 847 P.; 1st pers. plur. volumus, [[but]] volĭmus, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 89 Speng.; 3d pers. [[sing]]. [[volt]], and 2d pers. plur. voltis [[always]] in [[ante]]-[[class]]. writers; also [[volt]], Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 17, § 42; 2, 5, 49, § 128; id. Sest. 42, 90; id. Phil. 8, 9, 26; id. Par. 5, 1, 34; id. Rep. 3, 33, 45: voltis, id. Verr. 2, 3, 53, § 122; 2, 3, 94, § 219; 2, 5, 5, § 11; 2, 3, 89, § 208; id. Clu. 30, 83; id. Rab. Perd. 12, 33; id. Sest. 30, 64; id. Par. 1, 2, 11 et saep. —Pres. subj. velim, [[but]] [[sometimes]] volim, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 44 Ritschl; cf. Prisc. 9, 1, 8, p. 848 P.; so volint, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 65 Ritschl), velle, volui ([[part]]. fut. voliturus, Serv. ad Verg. A. 5, 712; contr. forms, vin for visne, freq. in Plaut. and Ter., also Hor. S. 1, 9, 69; Pers. 6, 63: sis for si vis, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 70; id. Merc. 4, 4, 37; id. Pers. 3, 3, 8; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 20; id. Heaut. 1, 2, 38; Cic. Tusc. 2, 18, 42; id. Rosc. Am. 16, 48; id. Mil. 22, 60; Liv. 34, 32, 20: [[sultis]] for si voltis, [[only]] [[ante]]-[[class]]., Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 8; id. As. prol. 1; id. Capt. 2, 3, 96; 3, 5, 9; 4, 4, 11), v. irreg. a. [Sanscr. var-; Gr. βολ-, [[βούλομαι]]>; cf. the strengthened [[root]] ϝελ-> in [[ἐέλδομαι]], ἔλπομαι; Germ. wollen; Engl. [[will]], expressing [[any]] [[exercise]] of [[volition]], and [[corresponding]], in [[most]] cases, to the Germ. wollen; in Engl. [[mostly]] rendered, to [[wish]], [[want]], [[intend]], [[purpose]], [[propose]], be [[willing]], [[consent]], [[mean]], [[will]], and, impersonally, it is my [[will]], [[purpose]], [[intention]], [[plan]], [[policy]] (syn.: [[cupio]], [[opto]]; [[but]] [[volo]] [[properly]] implies a [[purpose]]).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.<br /> <b>A</b> With [[object]]-infinitive.<br /> <b>1</b> With pres. inf.<br /> <b>a</b> To [[wish]].<br /> <b>(a)</b> Exire ex urbe priusquam luciscat [[volo]], Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 35: potare ego [[hodie]] [[tecum]] [[volo]], id. Aul. 3, 6, 33: ego [[quoque]] [[volo]] esse [[liber]]: [[nequiquam]] [[volo]], id. Trin. 2, 4, 39; so id. ib. 2, 4, 164: ait rem seriam agere velle [[mecum]], Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 8: [[natus]] [[enim]] debet quicunque est velle manere In vitā, Lucr. 5, 177: [[video]] te [[alte]] spectare et velle in [[caelum]] migrare, Cic. Tusc. 1, 34, 82: [[quid]] poëtae? Nonne [[post]] mortem nobilitari volunt? id. ib. 1, 15, 34: si innocentes existimari volumus, id. Verr. 2, 2, 10, § 28: [[quoniam]] opinionis meae voluistis esse participes, id. de Or. 1, 37, 172: [[quod]] eas [[quoque]] nationes adire et regiones cognoscere volebat, Caes. B. G. 3, 7: si velit suos recipere, obsides sibi remittat, id. ib. 3, 8 fin.: dominari [[illi]] volunt, vos [[liberi]] esse, Sall. J. 31, 23: si haec relinquere voltis, id. C. 58, 15: priusquam [[liberi]] estis, dominari jam in adversarios vultis, Liv. 3, 53, 7: si [[quis]] vestrum suos invisere [[volt]], commeatum do, id. 21, 21, 5: non [[enim]] vincere [[tantum]] noluit, sed vinci voluit, id. 2, 59, 2: suspitionem [[Caesar]] quibusdam reliquit, [[neque]] voluisse se [[diutius]] vivere, [[neque]] curasse, Suet. Caes. 85: [[Eutrapelus]] cuicunque nocere volebat, Vestimenta dabat pretiosa, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 31.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Idiomatically: [[quid]] arbitramini Rheginos merere velle ut ab iis marmorea [[illa]] [[Venus]] auferatur? [[what]] do [[you]] [[think]] the Rhegini would [[take]] for, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 60, § 135.—<br /> <b>(g)</b> Transf., of things: [[fabula]] quae posci vult et spectata reponi, a [[comedy]] [[which]] wishes (i. e. is meant) to be in [[demand]], etc., Hor. A. P. 190: [[neque]] [[enim]] aut hiare [[semper]] vocalibus aut destitui temporibus volunt [[sermo]] [[atque]] [[epistula]], Quint. 9, 4, 20; cf. id. 8, prooem. 23.—<br /> <b>b</b> Of the wishes of those [[that]] [[have]] a [[right]] to [[command]], the gods, masters, parents, commanders, etc., I [[want]], [[wish]], [[will]], am resolved, it is my [[will]]: in acdibus [[quid]] [[tibi]] meis erat negoti ... ? Volo scire, Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 14; 3, 2, 17; 3, 2, 18; 3, 6, 27; id. Curc. 4, 3, 11; id. Ep. 3, 4, 74; id. Mil. 2, 3, 74; 3, 1, 17; id. Stich. 1, 2, 56; Ter. And. 1, 2, 9; 4, 2, 17: maximā voce clamat [[populus]], [[neque]] se uni, nec paucis velle parere, Cic. Rep. 1, 35, 55: consuesse deos [[immortalis]], quos pro scelere eorum ulcisci velint, etc., Caes. B. G. 1, 13: hic experiri vim virtutemque [[volo]], Liv. 23, 45, 9.—<br /> <b>c</b> = in [[animo]] habere, to [[intend]], [[purpose]], [[mean]], [[design]]: ac volui inicere tragulam in [[nostrum]] senem, Plaut. Ps. 1, 4, 14: [[eadem]] quae illis voluisti facere tu, faciunt [[tibi]], id. Mil. 3, 1, 11; so id. Most. 2, 2, 5: puerumque [[clam]] voluit exstinguere, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 23: necare candem voluit, Cic. Cael. 13, 31: [[quid]] [[enim]] ad illum qui te captare vult, [[utrum]] tacentem te irretiat an loquentem? id. Ac. 2, 29, 94: [[hostis]] hostem occidere volui, Liv. 2, 12, 9; 7, 34, 11: volui [[interdiu]] eum ... occidere; volui, cum ad cenam invitavi, [[veneno]] [[scilicet]] tollere; volui ... ferro interficere ([[ironically]]), id. 40, 13, 2: tuum [[crimen]] erit, hospitem occidere voluisse, the [[intention]] to [[kill]] [[your]] [[guest]]-[[friend]], Val. Max. 5, 1, 3 fin.; 6, 1, 8: non [[enim]] vult mori, sed invidiam filio facere, Quint. 9, 2, 85.— Pregn., opp. optare: non vult mori qui optat, Sen. Ep. 117, 24: sed eo [[die]] is, cui [[dare]] volueram (epistulam), non est [[profectus]], Cic. Att. 9, 7, 1: cum de senectute vellem aliquid scribere, id. Sen. 1, 2: ego te volui castigare, tu mihi accussatrix ades, Plaut. As. 3, 1, 10: [[bonus]] [[volo]] jam ex hoc [[die]] esse, id. Pers. 4, 3, 10: ego jam a [[principio]] amici filiam, Ita ut aequom fuerat, volui uxorem ducere, Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 46: at [[etiam]] eo negotio M. Catonis splendorem maculare voluerunt, it [[was]] [[their]] [[purpose]], Cic. Sest. 28, 60: eum (tumulum) non tam capere [[sine]] certamine volebat, [[quam]] causam certaminis cum Minucio contrahere, his [[plan]] [[was]], Liv. 22, 28, 4.—Of things: cum lex venditionibus occurrere voluit, [[when]] it [[was]] the [[purpose]] of the [[law]], Dig. 46, 1, 46: sed [[quid]] eā drachumā facere vis? Ca. Restim [[volo]] Mihi [[emere]] ... qui me faciam pensilem, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 87: Ch. Revorsionem ad terram faciunt vesperi. Ni. Aurum [[hercle]] auferre voluere, id. Bacch. 2, 3, 63: si iis qui haec omnia flammā ac ferro delere voluerunt ... [[bellum]] indixi, etc., Cic. Prov. Cons. 10, 24: (plebem) per caedem senatūs vacuam rem publicam tradere Hannibali velle, Liv. 23, 2, 7: rem Nolanam in jus dicionemque [[dare]] voluerat Poeno, id. 23, 15, 9: qui (majores nostri) tantā curā Siculos tueri ac retinere voluerunt ut, etc., whose [[policy]] it [[was]] to [[protect]], etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 6, § 14: ut qui a [[principio]] [[mitis]] omnibus Italicis [[praeter]] Romanos videri vellet, etc., Liv. 23, 15, 4: [[idem]] [[istuc]], si in vilitate largiri voluisses, derisum tuum [[beneficium]] esset, if [[you]] had offered to [[grant]] the [[same]] [[thing]] [[during]] [[low]] prices, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 92, § 215.—<br /> <b>d</b> = studere, conari, to [[try]], endeavor, [[attempt]]: quas (i. e. magnas res) qui impedire vult, is et [[infirmus]] est mobilisque naturā, et, etc., Cic. Lael. 20, 75: nam si [[quando]] id ([[exordium]]) [[primum]] invenire volui, nullum mihi occurrit, [[nisi]] aut [[exile]], aut, etc., id. Or. 2, 77, 315: de Antonio [[dico]], [[numquam]] illum ... nonnullorum de ipso suspitionem infitiando tollere voluisse, [[that]] he [[never]] attempted to [[remove]], id. Sest. 3, 8; id. Div. 1, 18, 35: audes Fatidicum fallere velle deum? do [[you]] [[dare]] [[attempt]]? Ov. F. 2, 262.—<br /> <b>e</b> To [[mean]], of actions and expressions: hic respondere voluit, non lacessere, the [[latter]] meant to [[answer]], not to [[provoke]], Ter. Phorm. prol. 19: non te judices urbi sed carceri reservarunt, [[neque]] to retinere in civitate, sed [[exilio]] privare voluerunt, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 9.—So, [[volo]] dicere, I [[mean]] (lit. I [[intend]] to [[say]]): [[quid]] aliud volui dicere? Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 51: [[volo]] [[autem]] dicere, illud homini [[longe]] optimum esse [[quod]] ipsum [[sit]] optandum per se, Cic. Tusc. 2, 20, 46.—Often [[with]] the acc. illud or id, as a [[correction]]: Tr. Specta [[quam]] [[arcte]] dormiunt. Th. Dormiunt? Tr. Illut [[quidem]] ut conivent volui dicere, I [[mean]] [[how]] [[they]] [[nod]], Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 145: Py. Quid? [[bracchium]]? Ar. Illud dicere volui [[femur]], id. Mil. 1, 1, 27: adduxi volui dicere, id. Ps. 2, 4, 21; id. Am. 1, 1, 233; 1, 1, 235; id. Cas. 2, 6, 14; id. Mil. 3, 2, 7; id. Ps. 3, 2, 54; id. Rud. 2, 4, 9.—<br /> <b>f</b> To be [[going]] to: haec argumenta ego aedificiis dixi; [[nunc]] [[etiam]] [[volo]] docere ut homines aedium esse similes arbitremini, [[now]] I am [[going]] to [[show]] [[how]], etc., Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 37: [[quando]] [[bene]] gessi rem, [[volo]] hic in [[fano]] supplicare, I am [[going]] to [[worship]] here, etc., id. Curc. 4, 2, 41: [[nunc]] [[quod]] relicuom restat [[volo]] persolvere, id. Cist. 1, 3, 40: sustine hoc, Penicule, exuvias facere quas vovi [[volo]], id. Men. 1, 3, 13: sinite me prospectare ne [[uspiam]] [[insidiae]] sint, [[consilium]] [[quod]] habere volumus, id. Mil. 3, 1, 3; id. As. 2, 2, 113; id. Cas. 4, 2, 3; id. Bacch. 1, 1, 61: si [[Prometheus]], cum mortalibus ignem dividere vellet, [[ipse]] a vicinis carbunculos conrogaret, [[ridiculus]] videretur, Auct. Her. 4, 6, 9: ait se velle de illis HS. LXXX. cognoscere, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 23, § 56: [[hinc]] se recipere cum vellent, [[rursus]] [[illi]] ex [[loco]] superiore nostros premebant, Caes. B. C. 1, 45. —<br /> To be [[about]] to, on the [[point]] of: [[quom]] mittere [[signum]] Volt, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 48, 107 (Ann. v. 88 Vahl.): [[quotiens]] [[ire]] [[volo]] [[foras]], retines me, rogitas quo ego eam, Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 5: quae [[sese]] in ignem inicere voluit, prohibui, Ter. And. 1, 1, 113: si scires aspidem latere [[uspiam]], et velle aliquem imprudentem [[super]] eam adsidere, Cic. Fin. 2, 18, 59; id. Div. 1, 52, 118: [[quod]] cum facere vellent, intervenit M. [[Manilius]], id. Rep. 1, 12, 18: qui cum opem ferre vellet, nuntiatum sibi esse aliam classem ad [[Aegates]] insulas [[stare]], Liv. 22, 56, 7: at Libys obstantes dum vult obvertere remos, In [[spatium]] resilire [[manus]] breve vidit, Ov. M. 3, 676; 1, 635: P. [[Claudius]] cum [[proelium]] [[navale]] committere vellet, Val. Max. 1, 4, 3.—<br /> Will, and in [[oblique]] [[discourse]] and questions would, the auxiliaries of the [[future]] and potential: animum advortite: Comediai [[nomen]] dari [[vobis]] [[volo]], I [[will]] [[give]] [[you]], etc., Plaut. Cas. prol. 30: sed, [[nisi]] molestum est, [[nomen]] [[dare]] [[vobis]] [[volo]] comediai, id. Poen. prol. 50: vos ite [[intro]]. Interea ego ex hac statuā verbereā [[volo]] erogitare ... [[quid]] [[sit]] [[factum]], id. Capt. 5, 1, 30: i tu [[atque]] arcessi illam: ego [[intus]] [[quod]] [[facto]] est [[opus]] [[volo]] adcurare, id. Cas. 3, 3, 35; id. Cist. 1, 1, 113; id. Most. 1, 1, 63; id. Poen. 2, 44; id. Pers. 1, 3, 85; id. Rud. 1, 2, 33: cum [[vero]] ([[gemitus]]) [[nihil]] imminuat doloris, [[cur]] [[frustra]] turpes esse volumus? [[why]] [[will]] (would) we be [[disgraceful]] to no [[purpose]]? Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 57: [[illa]] [[enim]] (ars) te, [[verum]] si loqui volumus, ornaverat, id. ib. 1, 47, 112: [[ergo]], si [[vere]] aestimare volumus, etc., Val. Max. 7, 5, 6: si [[vere]] aestimare Macedonas, qui [[tunc]] erant, volumus, Curt. 4, 16, 33: ejus me compotem facere potestis, si meminisse vultis, etc., Liv. 7, 40, 5: visne [[igitur]], dum [[dies]] ista venit ... [[interea]] tu [[ipse]] congredi [[mecum]] ut, etc. ...? id. 8, 7, 7: [[volo]] [[tibi]] Chrysippi [[quoque]] distinctionem indicare, Sen. Ep. 9, 14: vis tu homines urbemque feris praeponere silvis? [[will]] [[you]] [[prefer]], etc., Hor. S. 2, 6, 92; cf. velim and vellem, would, II. A. 2.—<br /> Sometimes volui = mihi placuit, I resolved, concluded ([[generally]], in this [[meaning]], followed by an infinitive [[clause]], v. I. B. 4.): uti [[tamen]] tuo consilio volui, [[still]] I concluded to [[follow]] [[your]] [[advice]], Cic. Att. 8, 3, 1.—<br /> <b>1</b> To be [[willing]], [[ready]], to [[consent]], [[like]] to do [[something]]: si [[sine]] [[bello]] velint rapta ... tradere ... se exercitum domum reducturum, if [[they]] were [[willing]], would [[consent]] to, would [[deliver]], etc., Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 52: is [[dare]] [[volt]], is se aliquid posci, likes to [[give]], id. As. 1, 3, 29: hoc dixit, si hoc de cellā concederetur, velle Siculos senatui polliceri [[frumentum]] in cellam [[gratis]], Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 87, § 200: ei laxiorem daturos, si venire ad causam dicendam vellet, Liv. 39, 17, 2; 5, 36, 4: [[nemo]] invenitur qui pecuniam suam dividere velit. Sen. Brev. Vit. 3, 1: [[plerique]] concessam sibi sub condicione vitam si militare [[adversus]] eum vellent, recusarunt, Suet. Caes. 68: dedere [[etiam]] se volebant, si toleranda viris imperarentur, Flor. 1, 33 (2, 18), 12.—So [[with]] negatives, to be not [[willing]], not to [[suffer]], not to [[like]], not to [[allow]], [[refuse]]: [[heri]] [[nemo]] voluit Sostratam [[intro]] admittere, Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 49: cum [[alter]] [[verum]] audire non vult, Cic. Lael. 26, 98: a proximis [[quisque]] [[minime]] anteiri vult, likes [[least]] to be surpassed, etc., Liv. 6, 34, 7: [[nihil]] ex his [[praeter]] ... accipere voluit, refused to [[accept]], Val. Max. 4, 3, 4.—<br /> To do [[something]] [[voluntarily]] or [[intentionally]]: [[volo]] facere = meā voluntate or [[sponte]] [[facio]]: si voluit accusare, pietati [[tribuo]]; si jussus est, necessitati, if he [[accused]] of his [[own]] [[free]] [[will]], I [[ascribe]] it to his [[filial]] [[love]], Cic. Cael. 1, 2: [[utrum]] statuas voluerint [[tibi]] statuere, an coacti sint, id. Verr. 2, 2, 65, § 157: de risu [[quinque]] sunt quae quaerantur ... sitne oratoris risum velle permovere, on [[purpose]], id. Or. 2, 58, 235: laedere [[numquam]] velimus, Quint. 6, 3, 28.—So, non velle [[with]] inf., to do [[something]] [[unwillingly]], [[with]] [[reluctance]]: vivere noluit qui mori non vult, [[who]] [[dies]] [[with]] [[reluctance]], Sen. Ep. 30, 10.—<br /> To be of [[opinion]], [[think]], [[mean]], [[pretend]] ([[rare]] [[with]] inf.; usu. [[with]] acc. and inf.; v. B. 8.): haec [[tibi]] scripsi ut [[isto]] ipso in genere in quo aliquid posse vis, te [[nihil]] esse cognosceres, in [[which]] [[you]] [[imagine]] [[you]] [[have]] [[some]] [[influence]], Cic. Fam. 7, 27, 2: in hoc [[homo]] [[luteus]] [[etiam]] [[callidus]] ac [[veterator]] esse vult, [[quod]] ita scribit, etc., pretends, [[means]] to be, id. Verr. 2, 3, 14, § 35: sed [[idem]] [[Aelius]] [[Stoicus]] esse voluit, [[orator]] [[autem]] nec studuit um [[quam]], nec fuit, id. Brut. 56, 206: Pythago. ras, qui [[etiam]] [[ipse]] [[augur]] esse vellet, id. Div. 1, 3, 5.—<br /> To [[like]], [[have]] no [[objection]] to, [[approve]] of (cf. E. 1. sq.): [[magis]] eum delectat qui se ait philosophari velle sed paucis: nam [[omnino]] [[haud]] placere, [[that]] he liked, had no [[objection]] to philosophizing, Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30; v. also II. A.—<br /> <b>2</b> With pres. inf. understood.<br /> <b>a</b> Supplied from a [[preceding]] or [[subsequent]] [[clause]].<br /> <b>(a)</b> To [[wish]], it is his [[will]], etc. (cf. 1. a. and b. [[supra]]): [[nunc]] [[bene]] [[vivo]] et [[fortunate]] [[atque]] ut [[volo]], i. e. vivere, as I [[wish]], Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 111: [[quod]] diu vivendo [[multa]] quae non [[volt]] (i. e. videre) videt, Caecil. ap. Cic. Sen. 8, 25: [[proinde]] [[licet]] quotvis vivendo condere saecla, Lucr. 3, 1090: nec [[tantum]] proficiebam [[quantum]] volebam, Cic. Att. 1, 17, 1: tot [[autem]] rationes attulit, ut velle (i. e. persuadere) ceteris, sibi [[certe]] persuasisse videatur, id. Tusc. 1, 21, 49: sed liceret, si velint, in Ubiorum finibus considere, Caes. B. G. 4, 81: quo praesidio [[senatus]] [[libere]] quae vellet decernere auderet, id. B. C. 1, 2.—Of things: [[neque]] [[chorda]] sonum reddit quem vult [[manus]] et [[mens]], Hor. A. P. 348.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> To [[choose]], be [[pleased]] (freq.): tum mihi faciat [[quod]] [[volt]] [[magnus]] [[Juppiter]], Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 50: id repetundi [[copia]] est, [[quando]] velis, id. Trin. 5, 2, 7: habuit [[aurum]] [[quamdiu]] voluit, Cic. Cael. 13, 31: rapiebat et asportabat [[quantum]] a [[quoque]] volebat [[Apronius]], id. Verr. 2, 3, 12, § 29: provincias quas vellet, quibus vellet, venderet? id. Sest. 39, 84: [[quotiens]] [[ille]] [[tibi]] potestatem facturus [[sit]] ut eligas [[utrum]] velis, id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 45: daret [[utrum]] vellet subclamatum est, Liv. 21, 18, 14: [[senatus]] [[consultum]] [[factum]] est ut [[plebes]] praeficeret quaestioni quem vellet, id. 4, 51, 2: saxi materiaeque caedendae [[unde]] [[quisque]] vellet jus [[factum]], id. 5, 55, 3; cf. id. 2, 13, 9; 5, 46, 10; 6, 25, 5; 22, 10, 23; 23, 6, 2; 23, 15, 15; 23, 45, 10; 23, 47, 2; 26, 21, 11: vicem suam [[conquestus]], [[quod]] sibi soli non liceret amicis, [[quatenus]] vellet, irasci, Suet. Aug. 66: at tu [[quantum]] vis tolle, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 16.—<br /> <b>(g)</b> To [[intend]], it is my [[purpose]], etc. (v. 1. c. [[supra]]): [[sine]] me pervenire quo [[volo]], [[let]] me [[come]] to my [[point]], Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 44: scripsi [[igitur]] Aristotelio [[more]], [[quemadmodum]] [[quidem]] volui, [[tres]] libros ... de Oratore, as I intended, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 23: ut meliore condicione [[quam]] quā [[ipse]] vult imitetur homines eos qui, etc., id. Div. in Caecil. 8, 25: ego istos posse vincere [[scio]], velle ne scirem ipsi fecerunt, Liv. 2, 45, 12. —<br /> <b>(d)</b> To be [[willing]], to [[consent]], I [[will]] (v. 1. h. and l. [[supra]]): tu eum orato ... St. [[Sane]] [[volo]], [[yes]], I [[will]], Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 57: jube me vinciri. Volo, dum [[istic]] [[itidem]] vinciatur, id. Capt. 3, 4, 75: patri dic velle (i. e. uxorem ducere), [[that]] [[you]] [[consent]], are [[willing]], Ter. And. 2, 3, 20 (cf.: si vis, II. A. 2, and sis, [[supra]] init.).—（ε) To do [[something]] [[voluntarily]] (v. 1. m. [[supra]]): tu selige [[tantum]], Me [[quoque]] velle velis, [[anne]] [[coactus]] amem, Ov. Am. 3, 11, 50.—<br /> <b>b</b> With [[ellipsis]] of inf.<br /> <b>(a)</b> Volo, [[with]] a [[designation]] of [[place]], = [[ire]] [[volo]]: nos in Formiano morabamur, quo citius audiremus: [[deinde]] [[Arpinum]] volebamus, I intended to go to [[Arpinum]], Cic. Att. 9, 1, 3: [[volo]] mensi Quinctili in Graeciam, id. ib. 14, 7, 2: [[hactenus]] [[Vitellius]] voluerat (i. e. procedere), Tac. A. 12, 42 fin.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> With [[other]] omissions, supplied from context: [[volo]] Dolabellae [[valde]] desideranti, non [[reperio]] [[quid]] (i. e. to [[dedicate]] [[some]] [[writing]] to him), Cic. Att. 13, 13, 2.—<br /> <b>(g)</b> In mal. [[part]]., Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 7; Ov. Am. 2, 4, 16; 2. 19, 2; Prop. 1, 13, 36.—<br /> <b>3</b> With [[perfect]] infinitive [[active]] ([[rare]]).<br /> <b>a</b> In [[negative]] [[imperative]] sentences [[dependent]] on ne velis, ne velit (in [[oblique]] [[discourse]] also ne vellet), [[where]] ne velis has the [[force]] of noli. The [[perfect]] infinitive [[emphatically]] represents the [[action]] as completed ([[ante]]-[[class]]. and [[poet]].).<br /> <b>(a)</b> In [[ancient]] ordinances of the Senate and of the [[higher]] officers (not in laws [[proper]]): NEIQVIS EORVM BACANAL HABVISE VELET ... BACAS VIR NEQVIS ADIESE VELET CEIVIS ROMANVS ... NEVE PECVNIAM QVISQVAM EORVM COMOINEM HABVISE VELET ... NEVE ... QVIQVAM FECISE VELET. NEVE INTER SED CONIOVRASE, NEVE COMVOVISE NEVE CONSPONDISE, etc., S. C. de Bacch. 4-13 ap. Wordsworth, Fragm. and Spec. p. 172.—So, in quoting [[such]] ordinances: per totam Italiam edicta mitti ne [[quis]] qui [[Bacchis]] initiatus esset, coisse aut convenisse causā sacrorum velit. neu [[quid]] [[talis]] rei divinae fecisse, Liv. 39, 14, 8: edixerunt ne [[quis]] [[quid]] fugae causā vendidisse [[neve]] emisse vellet, id. 39, 17, 3. —<br /> <b>(b)</b> In [[imitation]] of [[official]] edicts: ([[vilicus]]) ne [[quid]] emisse velit insciente domino, neu [[quid]] domino celasse velit, the [[overseer]] [[must]] not [[buy]] [[any]] [[thing]], etc., [[Cato]], R. R. 5, 4: [[interdico]], ne extulisse [[extra]] [[aedis]] puerum [[usquam]] velis, Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 48: oscula [[praecipue]] nulla dedisse velis (= noli [[dare]]), Ov. Am. 1, 4, 38: ne [[quis]] humasse velit Ajacem, Atride, vetas? Cur? Hor. S. 2, 3, 187.—<br /> <b>b</b> In [[affirmative]] sentences, implying [[command]] (in [[any]] [[mood]] or tense; [[mostly]] [[poet]].): neminem [[nota]] strenui aut ignavi militis notasse volui, I [[have]] [[decided]] to [[mark]] no one, etc., Liv. 24, 16, 11: [[quia]] pepercisse [[vobis]] volunt, committere vos [[cur]] pereatis non patiuntur, [[because]] [[they]] [[have]] [[decided]] to [[spare]] [[you]], etc., id. 32, 21, 33: sunt delicta [[tamen]] quibus ignovisse velimus (= volumus), [[which]] should be pardoned, Hor. A. P. 347.—<br /> <b>c</b> To [[represent]] the [[will]] as referring to a completed [[action]].<br /> <b>(a)</b> In optative sentences [[with]] vellem or velim, v. II. B. 5. b. α, and II. C. 1. b.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> In [[other]] sentences ([[poet]]. and [[post]]-[[class]].): ex omnibus praediis ex quibus non hac mente recedimus ut omisisse possessionem velimus, [[with]] the [[will]] to [[abandon]] (omittere would [[denote]] the [[purpose]] to [[give]] up at [[some]] [[future]] [[time]]), Dig. 43, 16, 1, § 25; so, an erit qui velle recuset Os populi meruisse? Pers. 1, 41: qui me volet incurvasse querelā, id. 1, 91.<br /> <b>B</b> With acc. and inf.<br /> <b>1</b> To [[wish]] (v. A. 1. a.).<br /> <b>a</b> With a [[different]] [[subject]]: hoc [[volo]] scire te: Perditus [[sum]] [[miser]], I [[wish]] [[you]] to [[know]], etc., Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 46: deos [[volo]] consilia vostra [[vobis]] recte vortere, id. Trin. 5, 2, 31: [[emere]] [[oportet]] quem [[tibi]] oboedire velis, id. Pers. 2, 4, 2: [[scin']] [[quid]] [[nunc]] te facere [[volo]]? Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 85: si perpetuam vis esse adfinitatem hanc, id. Hec. 2, 2, 10: [[consul]] [[ille]] egit eas res quarum me participem esse voluit, Cic. Prov. Cons. 17, 41: vim volumus exstingui: jus valeat [[necesse]] est, id. Sest. 42, 92: nec mihi hunc errorem extorqueri [[volo]], id. Sen. 23, 85: hoc te scire volui, id. Att. 7, 18, 4: harum causarum fuit justissima [[quod]] Germanos suis [[quoque]] rebus timere voluit, Caes. B. G. 4, 16: ut equites qui salvam esse rempublicam vellent ex equis desilirent, Liv. 4, 38, 2: si me vivere vis recteque videre valentem, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 3: si vis me flere, dolendum est Primum ipsi [[tibi]], id. A. P. 102.—With [[pass]]. inf. impers.: regnari [[tamen]] omnes volebant, [[that]] [[there]] should be a [[king]], Liv. 1, 17, 3: mihi [[volo]] ignosci, I [[wish]] to be pardoned, Cic. Or. 1, 28, 130: [[volt]] sibi [[quisque]] credi, Liv. 22, 22, 14. —<br /> <b>b</b> With the [[same]] [[subject]].<br /> <b>(a)</b> With inf. [[act]].: quae mihi est [[spes]] quā me vivere velim, [[what]] [[hope]] [[have]] I, [[that]] I should [[wish]] to [[live]]? Plaut. Rud. 1, 3, 33: [[volo]] me placere Philolachi, id. Most. 1, 3, 11; cf. id. Trin. 2, 2, 47; id. Rud. 2, 6, 1: judicem esse me, non doctorem [[volo]], Cic. Or. 33, 117: vult, [[credo]], se esse carum suis, id. Sen. 20, 73; so id. Off. 1, 31, 113; id. de Or. 1, 24, 112; 2, 23, 95. —<br /> <b>(b)</b> With inf. [[pass]].: [[quod]] certiorem te vis fieri quo [[quisque]] in me [[animo]] [[sit]], Cic. Att. 11, 13, 1; cf. id. Fam. 1, 9, 18: qui se ex his [[minus]] timidos existimari volebant, Caes. B. G. 1, 39; cf. id. B. C. 2, 29: religionis se causā ... [[Bacchis]] initiari velle, Liv. 39, 10, 2: Agrippae se nepotem [[neque]] credi [[neque]] dici volebat, Suet. Calig. 22 fin.—<br /> <b>2</b> Of the [[will]] of superiors, gods, etc. (cf. A. 1. b. [[supra]]), I [[want]], it is my [[will]]: me absente neminem [[volo]] intromitti, Plaut. Aul. 1, 3, 21: viros nostros quibus tu voluisti esse nos matres familias, id. Stich. 1, 2, 41; id. Most. 1, 4, 2; id. Rud. 4, 5, 9; id. Trin. 1, 2, 1: [[pater]] illum alterum (filium) [[secum]] omni tempore volebat esse, Cic. Rosc. Am. 15, 42: ([[deus]]) [[quinque]] reliquis motibus orbem esse voluit expertem, id. Univ. 10; cf. id. Sest. 69, 147; id. Verr. 2, 4, 25, § 57; 1, 5, 14: [[causa]] mittendi fuit [[quod]] [[iter]] per [[Alpes]] ... patefieri volebat, Caes. B. G. 3, 1; cf. id. ib. 5, 9; id. B. C. 1, 4: [[quippe]] ([[senatus]]) foedum hominem a republicā [[procul]] esse volebat, Sall. C. 19, 2: nec (di) patefieri (crimina) ut impunita essent, sed ut vindicarentur voluerunt, Liv. 39, 16, 11; cf. id. 1, 56, 3; 2, 28, 5; 25, 32, 6: [[senatus]] ... Romano sanguini pudicitiam tutam esse voluit, Val. Max. 6, 1, 9; cf. id. 6, 9, 2.—So in the historians: [[quid]] fieri vellet (velit), [[after]] a [[verbum]] imperandi or declarandi, he gave his orders, explained his [[will]]: [[quid]] fieri velit praecipit, Caes. B. G. 5, 56: ibi [[quid]] fieri vellet imperabat, id. ib. 7, 16: [[quid]] fieri vellet ostendit, id. ib. 7, 27: quae fieri vellet edocuit, id. B. C. 3, 108; cf. id. B. G. 7, 45; id. B. C. 3, 78; 3, 89: [[quid]] fieri vellet edixit, Curt. 8, 10, 30; 4, 13, 24; Val. Max. 7, 4, 2.— Frequently majores voluerunt, it [[was]] the [[will]] of [[our]] ancestors, referring to [[ancient]] [[customs]] and institutions: sacra Cereris summā majores nostri religione confici caerimoniāque voluerunt, Cic. Balb. 24, 55: majores vestri ne vos [[quidem]] [[temere]] coire voluerunt, cf. id. ib. 17, 39; 23, 54; id. Agr. 2, 11, 26; id. Fl. 7, 15; id. Imp. Pomp. 13, 39; id. Div. 1, 45, 103; id. Font. 24, 30 (10, 20); id. Rosc. Am. 25, 70.—Of testamentary dispositions: cum [[Titius]], [[heres]] [[meus]], [[mortuus]] erit, [[volo]] hereditatem meam ad P. Mevium pertinere, Gai Inst. 2, 277. Except in the [[institution]] of the [[first]] [[heir]]: at [[illa]] ([[institutio]]) non est comprobata: Titum heredem esse [[volo]], Gai Inst. 2, 117. —<br /> <b>3</b> Of the [[intention]] of a [[writer]], etc., to [[want]], to [[mean]], [[intend]]: Asinariam [[volt]] esse ([[nomen]] fabulae) si per vos [[licet]], Plaut. As. prol. 12: [[Plautus]] hanc mihi gnatam esse voluit Inopiam, has wanted Poverty to be my [[daughter]], made her my [[daughter]], id. Trin. prol. 9: primumdum huic esse [[nomen]] [[Diphilus]] Cyrenas voluit, id. Rud. prol. 33: quae ipsi qui scripserunt voluerunt [[vulgo]] intellegi, meant to be understood by all, Cic. Or. 2, 14, 60: si non hoc intellegi volumus, id. Fat. 18, 41: quale intellegi vult [[Cicero]] cum dicit orationem suam coepisse canescere, Quint. 11, 1, 31; so id. 9, 4, 82; 9, 3, 9: [[quamquam]] [[illi]] (Prometheo) [[quoque]] ferreum anulum dedit [[antiquitas]] vinculumque id, non [[gestamen]], intellegi voluit, Plin. 33, 1, 4, § 8.—<br /> <b>4</b> To [[resolve]]: [[Siculi]] ... me defensorem calamitatum suarum ... esse voluerunt, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 4, 11: si a me causam hanc vos (judices) agi volueritis, if [[you]] [[resolve]], id. ib. 8, 25: [[senatus]] te voluit mihi nummos, me [[tibi]] [[frumentum]] [[dare]], id. Verr. 2, 3, 85, § 196: quā (statuā) abjectā, basim [[tamen]] in [[foro]] manere voluerunt, id. ib. 2, 2, 66, § 160: liberam debere esse Galliam [[quam]] ([[senatus]]) suis legibus uti voluisset, Caes. B. G. 1, 45: tu Macedonas [[tibi]] voluisti genua ponere, venerarique te ut deum, Curt. 8 (7), 13.— Hence,<br /> <b>5</b> To [[order]], [[command]]: [[erus]] [[meus]] [[tibi]] me salutem multam voluit dicere, has [[ordered]] me, etc., Plaut. Ps. 4, 2, 25: montem quem a Labieno occupari voluerit, [[which]] he had [[ordered]] to be [[occupied]], Caes. B. G. 1, 22: ibi futuros esse Helvetios ubi eos [[Caesar]] ... esse voluisset, id. ib. 1, 13 (for velitis jubeatis [[with]] inf.-[[clause]], v. II. B. 5. d.).—<br /> <b>6</b> To [[consent]], [[allow]] (cf. A. 1. I.): obtinuere ut (tribuni) tribuniciae potestatis [[vires]] salubres vellent reipublicae esse, [[they]] prevailed [[upon]] [[them]] to [[permit]] the tribunitian [[power]] to be [[wholesome]] to the [[republic]], Liv. 2, 44, 5: [[Hiero]] tutores ... puero reliquit quos [[precatus]] est moriens ut juvenum suis potissimum vestigiis insistere vellent, id. 24, 4, 5: petere ut eum ... publicae [[etiam]] curae ac [[velut]] tutelae vellent esse (i. e. [[senatus]]), id. 42, 19, 5: orare tribunos ut uno [[animo]] cum consulibus [[bellum]] ab urbe ac moenibus propulsari vellent, id. 3, 69, 5: [[quam]] superesse causam Romanis [[cur]] non ... [[incolumis]] Syracusas esse velint? id. 25, 28, 8: si [[alter]] ex heredibus voluerit rem a legatario possideri, [[alter]] non, ei qui noluit [[interdictum]] competet, Dig. 43, 3, 1, § 15.—So negatively = not to [[let]], not to [[suffer]]: cum P. Attio agebant ne suā pertinaciā omnium fortunas perturbari vellet, Caes. B. C. 2, 36.—<br /> <b>7</b> To be of [[opinion]] [[that]] [[something]] should be, to [[require]], [[demand]]: voluisti [[enim]] in suo genere unumquemque ... esse Roscium, Cic. Or. 1, 61, 258: eos [[exercitus]] quos [[contra]] se multos jam annos aluerint velle dimitti, he demanded the [[disbanding]] of, etc., Caes. B. C. 1, 85: ([[Cicero]]) vult esse auctoritatem in verbis, Quint. 8, 3, 43: vult esse [[Celsus]] [[aliquam]] et superiorem compositionem, id. 9, 4, 137: si [[tantum]] irasci vis sapientem [[quantum]] scelerum [[indignitas]] exigit, Sen. Ira, 2, 9, 4. —<br /> <b>8</b> To be of [[opinion]] [[that]] [[something]] is or [[was]], = censere, dicere, [[but]] implying [[that]] the [[opinion]] is [[erroneous]] or [[doubtful]], usu. in the [[third]] pers., [[sometimes]] in the [[second]].<br /> <b>(a)</b> To [[imagine]], [[consider]]: est [[genus]] hominum qui esse se primos omnium rerum volunt, Nec sunt, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 17: [[semper]] auget adsentator id [[quod]] is cujus ad voluntatem dicitur vult esse magnum, Cic. Lael. 26, 98: si [[quis]] [[patricius]], si [[quis]]—[[quod]] [[illi]] volunt invidiosius esse—[[Claudius]] diceret, Liv. 6, 40, 13.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> To be of [[opinion]], to [[hold]]: vultis, [[opinor]], [[nihil]] esse ... in naturā [[praeter]] ignem, Cic. N. D. 3, 14, 36: volunt [[illi]] omnes ... eādem condicione nasci, id. Div. 2, 44, 93: vultis evenire omnia fato, id. ib. 2, 9, 24: alteri censent, etc., alteri volunt a rebus [[fatum]] omne relegari, id. Fat. 19, 45: vultis a dis immortalibus hominibus dispertiri somnia, id. N. D. 3, 39, 93; id. Tusc. 1, 10, 20; id. Fin. 3, 11, 36; id. Rep. 2, 26, 48: volunt [[quidam]] ... iram in pectore moveri effervescente [[circa]] cor [[sanguine]], Sen. Ira, 2, 19, 3.—<br /> <b>(g)</b> To [[say]], [[assert]]: si tam [[familiaris]] erat Clodiae [[quam]] tu esse vis, as [[you]] [[say]] he is, Cic. Cael. 21, 53: [[sit]] [[sane]] tanta quanta tu illam esse vis, id. Or. 1, 55, 23: ad pastum et ad procreandi voluptatem hoc divinum [[animal]] procreatum esse voluerunt: quo [[nihil]] mihi videtur esse absurdius, id. Fin. 2, 13, 40; 2, 17, 55; 2, 42, 131; 2, 46, 142; id. Fat. 18, 41.—With perf. inf.: Rhodi ego non fui: me vult fuisse, Cic. Planc. 34, 84.—<br /> <b>(d)</b> To [[pretend]], [[with]] perf. inf., [[both]] subjects denoting the [[same]] [[person]]: [[unde]] homines dum se [[falso]] terrore coacti Effugisse volunt, etc., Lucr. 3, 69 (cf. A. 1. n. [[supra]]). (ε) To [[mean]], [[with]] perf. inf.: [[utrum]] scientem vultis [[contra]] foedera fecisse, an inscientem? Cic. Balb. 5, 13.— With pres. inf.: [[quam]] [[primum]] istud, [[quod]] esse vis? [[what]] do [[you]] [[mean]] by as [[soon]] as [[possible]]? Sen. Ep. 117, 24.—（ζ) Rarely in the [[first]] pers., implying [[that]] the [[opinion]] is [[open]] to [[discussion]]: ut et mihi, quae ego vellem non esse oratoris, concederes, [[what]] according to my [[opinion]] is not the [[orator]]'s [[province]], Cic. Or. 1, 17, 74.—<br /> <b>9</b> In partic.<br /> <b>a</b> With things as subjects.<br /> <b>(a)</b> Things personified: ne res publica [[quidem]] haec pro se suscipi volet, would [[have]] [[such]] things done for it, Cic. Off. 1, 45, 159: cui tacere [[grave]] [[sit]], [[quod]] homini facillimum voluerit esse [[natura]], [[which]] [[nature]] willed should be easiest for [[man]], Curt. 4, 6, 6: [[fortuna]] Q. Metellum ... nasci in urbe terrarum principe voluit, [[fate]] ordained [[that]], etc., Val. Max. 7, 1, 1: [[nihil]] rerum ipsa [[natura]] voluit magnum effici [[cito]], it is the [[law]] of [[nature]] [[that]], etc., Quint. 10, 3, 4: [[quid]] non ingenio voluit [[natura]] licere? [[what]] license did [[nature]] [[refuse]] to [[genius]]? Mart. 8, 68, 9: me [[sine]], quem [[semper]] voluit [[fortuna]] jacere, Prop. 1, 6, 25: hanc me militiam fata subire volunt, id. 1, 6, 30.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Of laws, to [[provide]]: [[duodecim]] tabulae nocturnum furem ... interfici [[impune]] voluerunt, Cic. Mil. 3, 9: lex [[duodecim]] tabularum [[tignum]] aedibus junctum ... solvi prohibuit, pretiumque ejus dari voluit, Dig. 46, 3, 98, § 8 fin. (cf. Cic. Div. in Caecil. 6, 21, b. α, [[infra]]).—<br /> <b>b</b> With perf. [[pass]]. inf., to [[represent]] a [[state]] or [[result]] wished for.<br /> <b>(a)</b> The inf. [[being]] in [[full]], [[with]] esse expressed: si [[umquam]] quemquam di immortales voluere esse [[auxilio]] adjutum, tum me et Calidorum servatum volunt, if it [[ever]] [[was]] the [[will]] of the gods [[that]] [[any]] one should be assisted, etc., Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 1: Corinthum patres vestri, totius Graeciae [[lumen]], exstinctum esse voluerunt, it [[was]] [[their]] [[will]] [[that]] [[Corinth]] should be (and [[remain]]) destroyed, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 5, 11: nostri ... leges et jura tecta esse voluerunt, id. Or. 1, 59, 253: [[propter]] eam partem epistulae tuae per [[quam]] te et [[mores]] tuos purgatos et probatos esse voluisti, id. Att. 1, 17, 7; id. Fin. 4, 27, 76; id. de Or. 1, 51, 221: daturum se operam ne cujus suorum popularium mutatam [[secum]] fortunam esse vellent, Liv. 21, 45, 6: for velle [[redundant]] in this [[construction]], v. II. A. 2. 3. [[infra]].—With [[pass]]. inf. impers.: sociis [[maxime]] lex [[consultum]] esse vult, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 6, 21.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> With ellips. of esse (cf. Quint. 9, 3, 9): perdis me tuis dictis. Cu. Imo, [[servo]] et servatum [[volo]], and [[mean]] [[that]] [[you]] should [[remain]] saved, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 56: [[aunt]] qui volum te conventam, [[who]] [[want]] to see [[you]], id. Cist. 4, 2, 39: [[eidem]] homini, si [[quid]] recte [[cura]] tum velis, mandes, if [[you]] [[want]] to [[have]] [[anything]] done [[well]], id. As. 1, 1, 106: sed [[etiam]] est paucis vos [[quod]] monitos voluerim, id. Capt. prol. 53: id [[nunc]] res [[indicium]] haeo facit, quo pacto [[factum]] volueris, this shows [[now]] [[why]] [[you]] wished this to be done, Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 31 (cf. Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 33; id. Aul. 3, 5, 30, II. B. 1, β, and II. B. 3. b. [[infra]]): domesticā curā te levatum [[volo]], I [[wish]] to see [[you]] relieved, etc., Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 3: nulla [[sedes]] quo concurrant qui rem publicam defensam velint, id. Att. 8, 3, 4: rex [[celatum]] voluerat (i. e. [[donum]]), id. Verr. 2, 4, 28, § 64: [[Hannibal]] non Capuam neglectam, [[neque]] desertos volebat socios, Liv. 25, 20, 5; 2, 15, 2; 2, 44, 3; 3, 21, 4; 22, 7, 4; 26, 31, 6: contemptum hominis quem destructum volebat, Quint. 8, 3, 21: si te non emptam vellet, emendus erat, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 34 (so [[with]] velle [[redundant]], v. II. A. 1. d., and II. A. 3. [[infra]]).—Both subjects denoting the [[same]] [[person]]: velle Pompeium se Caesari purgatum, Caes. B. C. 1, 8.— Esp., [[with]] [[pass]]. inf. impers.: alicui [[consultum]] velle, to [[take]] [[care]] for or [[advocate]] [[somebody]]'s interests: liberis [[consultum]] volumus [[propter]] ipsos, Cic. Fin. 3, 17, 57: obliviscere illum [[aliquando]] adversario tuo voluisse [[consultum]], id. Att. 16, 16 C, 10: quibus tribuni [[plebis]] [[nunc]] [[consultum]] [[repente]] volunt, Liv. 5, 5, 3; so id. 25, 25, 17: [[quamquam]] [[senatus]] subventum voluit heredibus, Dig. 36, 1, 1, § 4; so [[with]] dep. [[part]]., used [[passively]]: [[volo]] amori ejus obsecutum, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 63.—<br /> <b>c</b> With predic. adj., [[without]] [[copula]].<br /> <b>(a)</b> The subjects [[being]] [[different]] ([[mostly]] aliquem salvum velle): si me vivum vis, [[pater]], Ignosce, if [[you]] [[wish]] me to [[live]], Ter. Heaut. 5, 5, 7: [[ille]], si me [[alienus]] adfinem volet, Tacebit, id. Phorm. 4, 1, 16: ut tu illam salvam [[magis]] velis [[quam]] ego, id. Hec. 2, 2, 17; 3, 5, 14: [[quoniam]] ex totā provinciā soli sunt qui te salvum velint, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 67, § 150: irent [[secum]] [[extemplo]] qui rempublicam salvam vellent, Liv. 22, 53, 7.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Both subjects denoting the [[same]] [[person]] ([[virtually]] = [[object]] infinitive): in [[occulto]] jacebis [[quom]] te [[maxime]] clarum voles (= [[clarus]] esse voles), [[when]] [[you]] [[will]] [[most]] [[wish]] to be [[famous]], Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 38: [[volo]] me patris mei similem, I [[wish]] to be [[like]] my [[father]], id. As. 1, 1, 54: ut [[iste]] qui se vult dicacem et mehercule est, [[Appius]], [[who]] [[means]] to be [[witty]], etc., Cic. Or. 2, 60, 246: qui [[vero]] se populares volunt, [[who]] [[mean]] to be [[popular]], id. Off. 2, 22, 78: ut integrum se salvumque velit, id. Fin. 2, 11, 33: ut (omne [[animal]]) se et salvum in suo genere incolumeque vellet, id. ib. 4, 8, 19. —<br /> <b>d</b> With an inf.-[[clause]] understood.<br /> <b>(a)</b> Velle, to [[wish]]: [[utinam]] [[hinc]] abierit in malam crucem! Ad. Ita nos velle aequom est (ita = eum abire, etc.), Plaut. Poen. 4, 1, 5: stulta es, [[soror]], [[magis]] [[quam]] [[volo]] (i.e. te esse), id. Pers. 4, 4, 78; id. Trin. 1, 2, 8; 2, 4, 175; id. Stich. 1, 1, 13; id. Ps. 1, 5, 55: senatum non [[quod]] sentiret, sed [[quod]] ego vellem decernere, Cic. Mil. 5, 12: [[neque]] [[enim]] [[facile]] est ut irascatur cui tu velis judex (= cui tu eum irasci velis), id. Or. 2, 45, 190; cf. id. Sest. 38, 82.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Referring to the [[will]] of superiors, etc.: deos [[credo]] voluisse, nam ni vellent, non fieret, Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 46: jamne [[abeo]]? St. Volo (sc. te abire), so I [[will]], id. Cas. 2, 8, 57; cf. id. Mil. 4, 6, 12; id. Merc. 2, 3, 33.—<br /> <b>(g)</b> To [[mean]], [[intend]] (v. B. 3.): [[acutum]] [[etiam]] illud est cum ex alterius oratione aliud [[atque]] [[ille]] vult (sc. te excipere), Cic. Or. 2, 67, 273.—<br /> <b>(d)</b> To [[require]], [[demand]] (v B. 7.): veremur [[quidem]] vos, Romani, et, si ita vultis, [[etiam]] timemus, Liv. 39, 37, 17; and of things as subjects: cadentque vocabula, si volet [[usus]] (i. e. ea cadere), Hor. A. P. 71.—（ε) To be of [[opinion]], [[will]] [[have]] (v. B. 8.): [[ergo]] ego, [[inimicus]], si ita vultis, homini, [[amicus]] esse rei publicae [[debeo]], Cic. Prov. Cons. 8, 19: nam [[illi]] regi tolerabili, aut, si voltis, [[etiam]] amabili, Cyro, id. Rep. 1, 28, 44; id. Fin. 2, 27, 89; 3, 4, 12; id. Cael. 21, 53; Liv. 21, 10, 7; Quint. 2, 17, 41.—（ζ) With ellips. of predic. inf. (v. A. 2. b.): [[cras]] de reliquiis nos [[volo]] (i. e. cenare), it is my [[intention]] [[that]] we [[dine]], etc., Plaut. Stich. 3, 2, 40: [[volo]] Varronem (i. e. hos libros habere), Cic. Att. 13, 25, 3.<br /> <b>C</b> With ut, ne, or ut ne.<br /> <b>1</b> With ut.<br /> <b>a</b> To [[wish]]: [[volo]] ut [[quod]] jubebo facias, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 65: [[quia]] [[enim]] id [[maxime]] [[volo]] ut [[illi]] [[istac]] confugiant, id. Most. 5, 1, 49: ut mihi [[aedes]] aliquas conducat [[volo]], id. Merc. 3, 2, 17: hoc [[prius]] [[volo]] meam rem agere. Th. Quid id est? Ph. Ut mihi hanc despondeas, id. Curc. 5, 2, 71: [[quid]] vis, [[nisi]] ut maneat Phanium? Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 8: velim ut [[tibi]] [[amicus]] [[sit]], Cic. Att. 10, 16, 1: [[quare]] id [[quoque]] velim ... ut [[sit]] qui utamur, id. ib. 11, 11, 2: [[maxime]] vellem, judices, ut P. [[Sulla]] ... modestiae fructum aliquem percipere potuisset, id. Sull. 1, 1: [[equidem]] vellem uti [[pedes]] haberent (res tuae), id. Fam. 7, 33, 2: his ut [[sit]] digna [[puella]] [[volo]], Mart. 11, 27, 14.—Both subjects denoting the [[same]] [[person]]: volueram, inquit, ut [[quam]] plurimum [[tecum]] essem, Brut. ap. Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1.—<br /> <b>b</b> It is the [[will]] of, to [[want]], [[ordain]] (v. B. 2.): at ego deos [[credo]] voluisse ut [[apud]] te me in nervo enicem, Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 17: [[numquid]] me vis? Le. Ut valeas, id. Cist. 1, 1, 120: [[numquid]] vis? Ps. Dormitum ut abeas, id. Ps. 2, 2, 70: [[volo]] ut mihi respondeas, Cic. Vatin. 6, 14; 7, 17; 7, 18; 9, 21; 12, 29: [[nuntia]] Romanis, caelestes ita velle ut mea [[Roma]] [[caput]] [[orbis]] terrarum [[sit]], Liv. 1, 16, 7.—<br /> <b>c</b> To [[intend]], it is the [[purpose]], [[aim]], etc., the [[two]] subjects [[being]] the [[same]]: id quaerunt, volunt haec ut infecta faciant, Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 9.—<br /> <b>d</b> With [[other]] verbs: [[quod]] [[peto]] et [[volo]] parentes meos ut commonstres mihi, Ter. Heaut. 5, 4, 4: [[quasi]] [[vero]] aut [[populus]] Romanus hoc voluerit, aut [[senatus]] [[tibi]] hoc mandaverit ut ... privares, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 19, § 48; [[with]] [[opto]], id. Imp. Pomp. 16, 48; [[with]] [[laboro]], Liv. 42, 14, 3; [[with]] aequum censere, id. 39, 19, 7.—<br /> <b>2</b> With ne: at ne videas velim, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 23: [[quid]] [[nunc]] vis? ut opperiare hos [[sex]] [[dies]] [[saltem]] [[modo]], ne illam vendas, neu me perdas, etc., id. Ps. 1, 3, 102: credibile est hoc voluisse legumlatorem, ne auxilia liberorum innocentibus deessent, intended, Quint. 7, 1, 56.—<br /> <b>3</b> With ut ne: [[quid]] [[nunc]] [[tibi]] vis? Mi. Ut quae te cupit, eam ne spernas, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 60.<br /> <b>D</b> With subjunct. of [[dependent]] [[verb]] ([[mostly]] [[ante]]-[[class]].; [[class]]. and freq. [[with]] velim and vellem; [[but]] in Cic. [[mostly]] epistolary and [[colloquial]]).<br /> <b>1</b> To [[wish]]: [[ergo]] animum advortas [[volo]], Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 23; 2, 3, 28; 2, 3, 70: [[volo]] amet me patrem, id. As. 1, 1, 63 dub.: hoc [[volo]] agatis, id. Cist. 1, 1, 83: ducas [[volo]] [[hodie]] uxorem, Ter. And. 2, 3, 14: [[quid]] vis faciam? Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 49; Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 24; Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 64; 2, 3, 65; 2, 6, 65; 3, 3, 3; id. Ps. 4, 1, 17; 4, 7, 19; id. Cas. 2, 3, 56; id. Capt. 1, 2, 12; id. Poen. 3, 2, 16; id. Pers. 2, 4, 23; id. Rud. 5, 2, 45; 5, 3, 58; id. Stich. 5, 2, 21; Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 14: [[volo]] [[etiam]] exquiras [[quam]] diligentissime poteris [[quid]] [[Lentulus]] agat? Cic. Att. 8, 12, 6: Othonem vincas [[volo]], id. ib. 13, 29, 2: eas litteras [[volo]] habeas, id. ib. 13, 32, 3: visne [[igitur]] videamus [[quidnam]] [[sit]], etc., id. Rep. 1, 10, 15: visne [[igitur]] descendatur ad Lirim? id. Fragm. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4: [[volo]], inquis, sciat, Sen. Ben. 2, 10, 2.—<br /> <b>2</b> To be of [[opinion]] [[that]] [[something]] should be, [[demand]], [[require]] (v. B. 7.): [[volo]] [[enim]] se efferat in adulescentiā [[fecunditas]], I [[like]] to see, etc., Cic. Or. 2, 21, 88: [[volo]] hoc oratori contingat ut, etc., id. Brut. 84, 290.—<br /> <b>3</b> With subj.-[[clause]] understood: abi [[atque]] obsona, propera! sed [[lepide]] [[volo]] (i. e. obsones), Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 55.<br /> <b>E</b> With [[object]] nouns, etc.<br /> <b>1</b> With acc. of a [[thing]].<br /> <b>a</b> With a [[noun]], to [[want]], [[wish]] for, [[like]] to [[have]]: voltisne olivas, aut [[pulmentum]], aut capparim? Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 90: [[animo]] [[male]] est: aquam velim, id. Am. 5, 1, 6: [[quia]] videt me suam amicitiam velle, id. Aul. 2, 3, 68; so, gratiam tuam, id. Curc. 2, 3, 52; 2, 3, 56: aquam, id. ib. 2, 3, 34: [[discidium]], Ter. And. 4, 2, 14: nullam ego rem [[umquam]] in vitā meā Volui [[quin]] tu in eā re mihi advorsatrix fueris, I [[never]] had [[any]] [[wish]] in my [[life]], etc., id. Heaut. 5, 3, 5: (dixit) velle Hispaniam, he wanted [[Spain]], i. e. as a [[province]], Cic. Att. 12, 7, 1: mihi frumento non [[opus]] est: nummos [[volo]], I [[want]] the [[money]], id. Verr. 2, 3, 85, § 196: non poterat [[scilicet]] negare se velle pacem, id. Att. 15, 1 a, 3; cf. id. ib. 13, 32, 2 (v. II. C. 4. [[infra]]): si [[amplius]] obsidum (= [[plures]] obsides) vellet, [[dare]] pollicentur, Caes. B. G. 6, 9 fin.: pacem [[etiam]] qui vincere possunt, volunt, Liv. 7, 40, 18: ferunt (eum) ... honestum finem voluisse, Tac. A. 6, 26: cum [[Scipio]] veram vellet et [[sine]] exceptione victoriam, Flor. 1, 33 (2, 18), 12: mensae munera si voles secundae, Marcentes [[tibi]] porrigentur uvae, Mart. 5, 78, 11.—<br /> <b>b</b> Neutr. adjj., denoting things, substantively used: [[utrum]] vis opta, dum [[licet]]. La. Neutrum [[volo]], Plaut. Ps. 3, 6, 16: quorum [[isti]] neutrum volunt, [[acknowledge]] [[neither]], Cic. Fat. 12, 28: voluimus quaedam, contendimus ... Obtenta non sunt, we aspired to [[certain]] things, id. Balb. 27, 61: restat ut omnes unum velint, [[hold]] one [[opinion]], id. Marcell. 10, 32: si plura velim, if I wished for [[more]], Hor. C. 3, 16, 38: per [[quod]] probemus aliud legislatorem voluisse, [[that]] the [[law]]-[[giver]] intended [[something]] [[different]], Quint. 7, 6, 8: ut putent, aliud quosdam dicere, aliud velle, [[that]] [[they]] [[say]] one [[thing]] and [[mean]] [[another]], id. 9, 2, 85: [[utrum]] is qui scripsit ... voluerit, [[which]] of the [[two]] [[was]] meant by the [[author]], id. 7, 9, 15: ut [[nemo]] [[contra]] id [[quod]] vult dicit, ita potest [[melius]] aliquid velle [[quam]] dicit, [[mean]] [[better]] [[than]] he speaks, id. 9, 2, 89: [[quis]] [[enim]] [[pudor]] omnia velle? to [[desire]] [[every]] [[thing]], Mart. 12, 94, 11.—<br /> <b>c</b> With neutr. demonstr. expressed or understood, to [[want]], [[intend]], [[aim]] at, [[like]], [[will]]: [[immo]] [[faenus]]: id [[primum]] [[volo]], Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 64: proximum [[quod]] [[sit]] bono ... id [[volo]], id. Capt. 2, 2, 22: [[nisi]] ea quae tu vis [[volo]], [[unless]] my [[purpose]] is the [[same]] as yours, id. Ep. 2, 2, 82: [[siquidem]] id sapere'st, velle te id [[quod]] non potest contingere, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 83: hoc (i. e. [[otium]] cum dignitate) qui volunt omnes optimates putantur, [[who]] [[aim]] at this, Cic. Sest. 45, 98: privatum [[oportet]] in re publicā ea velle quae tranquilla et honesta sint, id. Off. 1, 34, 124: [[quid]] est [[sapientia]]? Semper [[idem]] velle [[atque]] [[idem]] nolle, Sen. Ep. 20, 5: pudebit [[eadem]] velle quae volueras [[puer]], id. ib. 27, 2: nec [[volo]] [[quod]] cruciat, nec [[volo]] [[quod]] satiat, Mart. 1, 57, 4.—With demonstr. in [[place]] of inf.-[[clause]]: hoc Ithacus velit, et magno mercentur Atridae (sc. poenas in me sumi), Verg. A. 2, 104: hoc velit [[Eurystheus]], velit hoc germana Tonantis (sc. [[verum]] esse, Herculem, etc.), Ov. H. 9, 7; Hor. S. 2, 3, 88.—<br /> <b>d</b> With neutr. of interrog. pron.: [[quid]] [[nunc]] vis? Am. Sceleste, at [[etiam]] [[quid]] velim, id tu me rogas? [[what]] do [[you]] [[want]] [[now]]? Plaut. Am. 4, 2, 5: eloquere [[quid]] velis, id. Cas. 2, 4, 2: heus tu! Si. Quid vis? id. Ps. 4, 7, 21; so Ter. Eun. 2, 1, 11; cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 152: sed [[plane]] [[quid]] velit [[nescio]], [[what]] his intentions are, Cic. Att. 15, 1 a, 5; id. de Or. 2, 20, 84: mittunt [[etiam]] ad dominos qui quaerant [[quid]] velint, to [[ask]] for [[their]] orders, id. Tusc. 2, 17, 41: [[quid]]? Si haec ... ipsius amici judicarunt? Quid [[amplius]] vultis? [[what]] [[more]] do [[you]] [[require]], [[will]] [[you]] [[have]]? id. Verr. 2, 3, 65, § 152: [[quid]] [[amplius]] vis? Hor. Epod. 17, 30: spectatur [[quid]] voluerit [[scriptor]], we [[find]] [[out]] the [[author]]'s [[intention]], Quint. 7, 10, 1.—Sometimes [[quid]] vult = [[quid]] sibi vult (v. 4. b.), to [[mean]], [[signify]]: capram illam [[suspicor]] jam invenisse ... [[quid]] voluerit, [[what]] it signified, Plaut. Merc. 2, 1, 30: sed [[tamen]] [[intellego]] [[quid]] velit, Cic. Fin. 2, 31, 101: [[quid]] [[autem]] volunt ea di immortales significantes quae [[sine]] interpretibus non possimus intellegere? etc., id. Div. 2, 25, 54.—Of things as subjects: hunc ensem mittit [[tibi]] ... Et jubet ex [[merito]] scire [[quid]] [[iste]] velit, Ov. H. 11, 96.—<br /> <b>e</b> With rel. pron.: [[quod]] volui, ut volui, impetravi ... a Philocomasio, Plaut. Mil. 4, 5, 1: ut [[quod]] [[frons]] velit oculi sciant, [[that]] the eyes [[know]] [[what]] the [[forehead]] wants, id. Aul. 4, 1, 13: [[illi]] quae [[volo]] concedere, to [[yield]] to him my wishes, id. Cas. 2, 3, 49: si illud [[quod]] volumus dicitur, [[what]] we [[like]], id. Truc. 1, 2, 95: [[multa]] eveniunt homini quae [[volt]], quae nevolt, id. Trin. 2, 2, 84; id. Ep. 2, 2, 4: [[quamquam]] (litterae tuae) [[semper]] aliquid adferunt [[quod]] velim, Cic. Att. 11, 11, 1: quae vellem quaeque sentirem dicendi, id. Marcell. 1, 1: uti ea quae vellent impetrarent, Caes. B. G. 1, 31: [[satis]] animi ad id [[quod]] tam diu vellent, to [[carry]] [[out]] [[what]] [[they]] had [[desired]] so [[long]], Liv. 4, 54, 5: sed [[quod]] volebant non ... expediebant, [[their]] [[purpose]], id. 24, 23, 9. —Idiomatically: [[quod]] [[volo]] = [[quod]] demonstrare [[volo]], [[what]] I [[intend]] to [[prove]]: illud [[quod]] volumus expressum est, ut vaticinari [[furor]] vera soleat, Cic. Div. 1, 31, 67: bis sumpsit [[quod]] voluit, he has [[twice]] begged the [[question]], id. ib. 2, 52, 107.—With indef. relations: cornucopia ubi inest [[quidquid]] [[volo]], [[whatever]] I [[wish]] for, Plaut. Ps. 2, 3, 5: [[Caesar]] de Bruto [[solitus]] est dicere: magni [[refert]] hic [[quid]] velit, sed [[quidquid]] [[volt]], [[valde]] [[volt]], [[whatever]] he wills he wills [[strongly]], Cic. Att. 14, 1, 2.—<br /> <b>f</b> With indef. pronn.<br /> <b>(a)</b> Si [[quid]] vis, if [[you]] [[want]] [[any]] [[thing]]: [[illo]] praesente [[mecum]] [[agito]] si [[quid]] voles, Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 72: Py. Adeat si [[quid]] [[volt]]. Pa. Si [[quid]] vis, adi, [[mulier]], id. Mil. 4, 2, 47: eumque [[Alexander]] cum rogaret, si [[quid]] vellet, ut diceret, id. Or. 2, 66, 266; Caes. B. G. 1, 7 fin.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Nisi [[quid]] vis, [[unless]] [[you]] [[wish]] to [[give]] [[some]] [[order]], to [[make]] [[some]] [[remark]], etc.: ego eo ad [[forum]] [[nisi]] [[quid]] vis, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 94: [[nunc]] de ratione videamus, [[nisi]] [[quid]] vis ad haec, Cic. Tusc. 2, 18, 42.—<br /> <b>(g)</b> Numquid vis or ecquid vis? [[have]] [[you]] [[any]] orders to [[give]]? a [[formula]] used by inferiors [[before]] leaving [[their]] superiors; cf. [[Don]]. ad Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 39: visunt, [[quid]] agam, ecquid velim, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 113: [[numquid]] vis aliud? Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 111; 1, 2, 106; id. Ad. 2, 2, 39; 3, 3, 78; id. Hec. 2, 2, 30: [[numquid]] vellem rogavit, Cic. Att. 6, 3, 6: [[frequentia]] rogantium num [[quid]] vellet, Liv. 6, 34, 7: rogavit num [[quid]] in Sardiniam vellet. Te [[puto]] [[saepe]] habere qui num [[quid]] Romam velis quaerant, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 1.—<br /> <b>2</b> With acc. of the [[person]]: aliquem velle.<br /> <b>(a)</b> To [[want]] [[somebody]], i. e. in [[order]] to see him, to [[speak]] [[with]] him ([[ante]]-[[class]]. and colloq.): Demenaetum volebam, I wanted, wished to see, Demenœtus, Plaut. As. 2, 3, 12: bona [[femina]] et [[malus]] [[masculus]] volunt te, id. Cist. 4, 2, 40: [[solus]] te [[solum]] [[volo]], id. Capt. 3, 4, 70: [[quia]] non est [[intus]] quem ego [[volo]], id. Mil. 4, 6, 40: hae oves volunt vos, id. Bacch. 5, 2, 24: [[quis]] me [[volt]]? Perii, [[pater]] est, Ter. And. 5, 3, 1: centuriones trium cohortium me velle [[postridie]], Cic. Att. 10, 16, 4.—With paucis verbis or paucis, for a [[few]] words (moments): [[volo]] te verbis pauculis, Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 28: sed paucis verbis te [[volo]], Palaestrio, id. Mil. 2, 4, 22: [[Sosia]], Adesdum, paucis te [[volo]], Ter. And. 1, 1, 2.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> To [[love]], [[like]] [[somebody]], to be [[fond]] of [[somebody]] (anteclass. and [[poet]].): hanc [[volo]] (= amo), Plaut. As. 5, 1, 18: [[sine]] me [[amare]] unum Argyrippum ... quem [[volo]], id. ib. 3, 2, 38: [[quom]] quae te [[volt]], eamdem tu vis, id. Mil. 4, 2, 80: aut quae (vitia) corpori' sunt ejus siquam petis ac vis, Lucr. 4, 1152: [[quam]] volui [[nota]] [[fit]] [[arte]] meā, Ov. Am. 1, 10, 60: [[nolo]] virum, facili redimit qui [[sanguine]] famam: hunc [[volo]], laudari qui [[sine]] morte potest, I [[like]] the one [[who]], etc., Mart. 1, 8, 6.—<br /> <b>(g)</b> To [[wish]] to [[have]]: roga, velitne an non uxorem, [[whether]] he wishes to [[have]] his [[wife]] or not, Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 43: ut [[sapiens]] velit gerere rem publicam, [[atque]] ... uxorem adjungere, et velle ex eā liberos (anacoluth.), Cic. Fin. 3, 20, 68.— With [[two]] accusatives: (narrato) illam te [[amare]] et velle uxorem, [[that]] [[you]] [[wish]] to [[have]] her as [[your]] [[wife]], Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 25; cf. id. Phorm. 1, 2, 65.—<br /> <b>3</b> With [[two]] accusatives, of the [[person]] and the [[thing]]: aliquem aliquid velle, to [[want]] [[something]] of [[somebody]] (cf.: aliquem aliquid rogare; [[mostly]] [[ante]]-[[class]].; not in Cic.): [[numquid]] me vis? Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 120: [[face]] certiorem me [[quid]] [[meus]] vir me velit, id. Cas. 2, 6, 1: num [[quidpiam]] me vis aliud? id. Truc. 2, 4, 81: [[nunc]] verba in pauca conferam [[quid]] te velim, id. As. 1, 1, 74: narrabit [[ultro]] [[quid]] [[sese]] velis, id. Ps. 2, 4, 60: [[quid]] me voluisti? id. Mil. 4, 2, 35: [[numquid]] aliud me vis? Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 101: [[quin]] tu uno verbo dic [[quid]] est [[quod]] me velis, id. And. 1, 1, 18; Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 85; id. Cist. 2, 3, 49; id. As. 2, 3, 12; id. Merc. 5, 2, 27; id. Pers. 4, 6, 11; Ter. Heaut. 4, 8, 31; id. Phorm. 2, 4, 18; id. Eun. 2, 3, 47; id. Hec. 3, 4, 15: si [[quid]] [[ille]] se velit, illum ad se venire oportere, Caes. B. G. 1, 34: cum [[mirabundus]] [[quidnam]] (Taurea) [[sese]] vellet, resedisset [[Flaccus]], Me [[quoque]], inquit, etc., Liv. 26, 15, 11; also, I [[want]] to [[speak]] [[with]] [[somebody]] (v. 2. a. α): paucis, Euclio, est [[quod]] te [[volo]], Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 22: est [[quod]] te [[volo]] [[secreto]], id. Bacch. 5, 2, 33.—<br /> <b>4</b> With acc. of [[thing]] and dat. of the [[person]]: aliquid alicui velle, to [[wish]] [[something]] to [[somebody]] (= [[cupio]] aliquid alicui; v. [[cupio]]; [[rare]]): [[quamquam]] [[vobis]] [[volo]] quae voltis, mulieres, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 1: si ex me [[illa]] liberos vellet sibi, Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 33: [[praesidium]] velle se senectuti suae, id. ib. 1, 2, 44: [[nihil]] est mali [[quod]] [[illa]] non [[initio]] filio voluerit, optaverit, Cic. Clu. 66, 188: rem Romanam huc provectam ut externis [[quoque]] gentibus quietem velit, Tac. A. 12, 11: cui ego omnia meritissimo [[volo]] et [[debeo]], to whom I [[give]] and [[owe]] my [[best]] wishes, Quint. 9, 2, 35.—Esp., in the [[phrase]] [[quid]] vis (vult) [[with]] reflex. dat. of [[interest]], lit. [[what]] do [[you]] [[want]] for [[yourself]]?<br /> <b>a</b> Quid [[tibi]] vis = [[quid]] vis, the dat. [[being]] [[redundant]] ([[rare]]): [[quid]] aliud [[tibi]] vis? [[what]] [[else]] do [[you]] [[want]]? Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 90.—With [[quisque]]: [[haud]] ita vitam agerent ut [[nunc]] [[plerumque]] videmus Quid sibi [[quisque]] velit nescire, be [[ignorant]] as to [[their]] [[own]] aims and purposes, Lucr. 3, 1058.—<br /> <b>b</b> What do [[you]] [[mean]]? [[what]] do [[you]] [[drive]] at? [[what]] is [[your]] [[scope]], [[object]], [[drift]] ([[rare]] in [[post]]-Aug. writers; [[Don]]. ad Ter. Eun. prol. 45, declares it an archaism).<br /> <b>(a)</b> In 1st pers. ([[rare]]): [[nunc]] [[quid]] processerim huc, et [[quid]] mihi voluerim dicam, and [[what]] I meant thereby, [[what]] [[was]] the [[purpose]] of my [[coming]], Plaut. As. prol. 6: [[quid]] mihi volui? [[quid]] mihi [[nunc]] prodest bona [[voluntas]]? Sen. Ben. 4, 21, 6.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> In 2d pers.: [[quid]] [[nunc]] [[tibi]] vis, [[mulier]], memora, [[what]] is the [[drift]] of [[your]] [[talk]]? Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 60: sed [[quid]] [[nunc]] [[tibi]] vis? [[what]] do [[you]] [[want]] to [[come]] at (i.e. by [[your]] [[preamble]])? id. Poen. 1, 1, 24: [[quid]] tu [[tibi]] vis? Ego non tangam meam? [[what]] do [[you]] [[mean]]? i. e. [[what]] is [[your]] [[purpose]]? Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 28: [[quid]] [[tibi]] vis? [[quid]] cum illā rei [[tibi]] est? id. ib. 4, 7, 34: [[quid]] est [[quod]] sic gestis? [[quid]] sibi hic [[vestitus]] quaerit? Quid est [[quod]] [[laetus]] sis? [[quid]] [[tibi]] vis? [[what]] do [[you]] [[mean]] by all this? id. ib. 3, 5, 11: [[quid]] est, inepta? [[quid]] vis [[tibi]]? [[quid]] rides? id. ib. 5, 6, 6: [[quid]] vis [[tibi]]? Quid quaeris? id. Heaut. 1, 1, 9: Ph. Fabulae! Ch. Quid vis [[tibi]]? id. Phorm. 5, 8, 53: roganti ut se in Asiam praefectum duceret, Quid [[tibi]] vis, inquit, [[insane]], Cic. Or. 2, 67, 269; so in 2d pers. plur.: pro deum fidem, [[quid]] [[vobis]] vultis? Liv. 3, 67, 7.—<br /> <b>(g)</b> In 3d pers.: [[quid]] [[igitur]] sibi [[volt]] [[pater]]? [[cur]] simulat? Ter. And. 2, 3, 1: [[quid]] hic [[volt]] [[veterator]] sibi? id. ib. 2, 6, 26: [[proinde]] desinant [[aliquando]] me isdem inflare verbis: [[quid]] sibi [[iste]] vult? ... Cur ornat eum a quo [[desertus]] est? Cic. Dom. 11, 29: [[quid]] sibi vellet ([[Caesar]])? [[cur]] in suas possessiones veniret? Caes. B. G. 1, 44 med.: conicere in eum oculos, mirantes [[quid]] sibi vellet (i. e. by [[courting]] the plebeians), Liv. 3, 35, 5: qui quaererent [[quid]] sibi vellent qui armati Aventinum obsedissent, id. 3, 50, 15: [[quid]] sibi voluit [[providentia]] quae Aridaeum [[regno]] imposuit? Sen. Ben. 4, 31, 1: [[volt]], non [[volt]] [[dare]] [[Galla]] mihi, nec dicere [[possum]] [[quod]] [[volt]] et non [[volt]], [[quid]] sibi [[Galla]] velit, Mart: 3, 90, 2.—<br /> <b>(d)</b> Transf. of things as subjects, [[what]] [[means]], [[what]] signifies? [[quid]] [[volt]] sibi, Syre, haec [[oratio]]? Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 2: ut pernoscatis [[quid]] sibi Eunuchus velit, id. Eun. prol. 45: [[quid]] [[ergo]] illae sibi statuae equestres inauratae volunt? Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 61, § 150: [[quid]] haec sibi horum civium Romanorum dona voluerunt? id. ib. 2, 3, 80, § 186: [[avaritia]] [[senilis]] [[quid]] sibi velit, non [[intellego]], [[what]] is the [[meaning]] of the [[phrase]], id. Sen. 18, 66: [[quid]] [[ergo]] [[illa]] sibi vult [[pars]] altera orationis quā Romanos a me cultos ait? Liv. 40, 12, 14: tacitae [[quid]] vult sibi noctis [[imago]]? Ov. M. 9, 473.—<br /> <b>5</b> Bene or [[male]] alicui velle, to [[wish]] one [[well]] or [[ill]], to [[like]] or [[dislike]] one ([[ante]]-[[class]]. and [[poet]].): Ph. Bene [[volt]] [[tibi]]. St. Nequam est illud [[verbum]] [[bene]] [[volt]], [[nisi]] qui [[bene]] facit, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 37 sq.: jam diu ego huic [[bene]] et hic mihi volumus, id. Ps. 1, 3, 4: ut [[tibi]], dum vivam, [[bene]] velim [[plus]] [[quam]] mihi, id. Cas. 2, 8, 30: egone [[illi]] ut non [[bene]] vellem? id. Truc. 2, 4, 90; cf. id. ib. 2, 4, 95; id. Merc. 2, 1, 21; id. Ps. 4, 3, 7; id. Poen. 3, 3, 9: [[nisi]] [[quod]] [[tibi]] [[bene]] ex [[animo]] [[volo]], Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 6: quo [[tibi]] [[male]] [[volt]] maleque faciet, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 44: [[atque]] [[isti]] [[etiam]] [[parum]] [[male]] [[volo]], id. Truc. 5, 7; cf. id. As. 5, 1, 13: [[utinam]] sic sient qui mihi [[male]] volunt, Ter. Eun. 4, 3, 13: non sibi [[male]] vult, he does not [[dislike]] [[himself]], Petr. 38; so, [[melius]] or [[optime]] alicui velle, to [[like]] one [[better]] or [[best]]: nec est [[quisquam]] mihi [[aeque]] [[melius]] [[quoi]] vellem, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 42; id. Merc. 5, 2, 57: [[illi]] ego ex omnibus [[optime]] [[volo]], id. Most. 1, 4, 24.—And [[bene]] velle = velle: [[bene]] volueris in precatione augurali [[Messalla]] [[augur]] ait, significare volueris, Fest. s. v. [[bene]] sponsis, p. 351.—<br /> <b>6</b> With abl.: alicujus causā velle, to [[like]] one for his [[own]] [[sake]], i. e. [[personally]], a Ciceronian [[phrase]], [[probably]] inst. of omnia alicujus causā velle; lit. to [[wish]] [[every]] [[thing]] (i.e. [[good]]) in [[somebody]]'s [[behalf]].<br /> <b>(a)</b> With omnia expressed: [[etsi]] mihi videor intellexisse cum [[tecum]] de re M. Annaeii [[locutus]] [[sum]], te ipsius causā [[vehementer]] omnia velle, [[tamen]], etc. ... ut non dubitem [[quin]] [[magnus]] [[cumulus]] accedat commenda tionis meae, Cic. Fam. 13, 55, 1: [[repente]] coepit dicere, se omnia Verris causā velle, [[that]] he had the [[most]] [[friendly]] [[disposition]] [[towards]] [[Verres]], id. Verr. 2, 2, 26, § 64: accedit eo [[quod]] [[Varro]] [[magnopere]] ejus causā vult omnia, id. Fam. 13, 22, 1.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Without omnia: per eos qui nostrā causā volunt, valentque [[apud]] illum, Cic. Att. 11, 8, 1: sed et Phameae causā volebam, id. ib. 13, 49, 1: [[etsi]] te ipsius Attici causā velle intellexeram, id. ib. 16, 16, A, 6: [[valde]] [[enim]] ejus causā [[volo]], id. Fam. 16, 17, 2 fin.: illud non perficis quo [[minus]] tuā causā velim, id. ib. 3, 7, 6; 12, 7, 1: si me velle tuā causā putas, id. ib. 7, 17, 2: regis [[causa]] si qui sunt qui velint, id. ib. 1, 1, 1: [[credo]] tuā causā velle Lentulum, id. Q. Fr. 1, 4, 5; id. Div. in Caecil. 6, 21; cf. id. Imp. Pomp. (v. C. 1. b. [[supra]]), [[where]] the [[phrase]] has its [[literal]] [[meaning]]; cf. also: alicujus causā (omnia) cupere; v. [[cupio]].—<br /> <b>7</b> With acc. and subjunct. per ecthesin ([[ante]]-[[class]].): [[nunc]] ego illum [[meum]] virum veniat velim (by [[mixture]] of constructions: [[meum]] virum velim; and: [[meus]] vir veniat velim), Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 29: [[nunc]] ego Simonidem mi [[obviam]] veniat velim, id. Ps. 4, 5, 10: [[nimis]] [[hercle]] ego illum corvum ad me veniat velim, id. Aul. 4, 6, 4: [[saltem]] aliquem velim qui mihi ex his locis viam monstret, id. Rud. 1, 3, 35: patrem [[atque]] matrem viverent vellem [[tibi]], id. Poen. 5, 2, 106; cf. id. Merc. 2, 1, 30 (v. E. 1. d. [[supra]]).<br /> <b>F</b> Velle used [[absolutely]], [[variously]] rendered to [[will]], [[have]] a [[will]], [[wish]], [[consent]], [[assent]]: [[quod]] vos, [[malum]] ... me sic ludificamini? Nolo [[volo]], [[volo]] [[nolo]] rursum, I nill I [[will]], I [[will]] I nill [[again]], Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 57: [[novi]] [[ingenium]] mulierum: Nolunt ubi velis, ubi nolis cupiunt [[ultro]], [[they]] [[will]] not [[where]] [[you]] [[will]], etc., id. Eun. 4, 7, 43: [[quis]] est cui velle non liceat? [[who]] is not [[free]] to [[wish]]? Cic. Att. 7, 11. 2: in magnis et voluisse sat est, Prop. 2, 10 (3, 1), 6: [[tarde]] velle nolentis est, [[slow]] ness in consenting betrays the [[desire]] to [[refuse]], Sen. Ben. 2, 5, 4: quae (animalia) nullam injuriam nobis faciunt, [[quia]] velle non possunt, id. Ira, 2, 26, 4: ejus est nolle qui potest velle, the [[power]] to [[assent]] implies the [[power]] to [[dissent]], Dig. 50, 17, 3.—So velle substantively: sed ego hoc ipsum velle miserius [[duco]] [[quam]] in crucem tolli, [[that]] [[very]] wishing, Cic. Att. 7, 11, 2: inest [[enim]] velle in carendo, the [[word]] carere implies the [[notion]] of a [[wish]], id. Tusc. 1, 36, 88: velle ac posse in [[aequo]] positum erat, his [[will]] and [[power]] were [[balanced]], Val. Max. 6, 9, ext. 5: velle tuum [[nolo]], [[Didyme]], nolle [[volo]], Mart. 5, 83, 2: velle suum cuique est, [[each]] has his [[own]] likings, Pers. 5, 53.<br /><b>II</b> In partic.<br /> <b>A</b> Redundant, [[when]] the [[will]] to do is identified [[with]] the [[act]] itself.<br /> <b>1</b> In [[imperative]] sentences.<br /> <b>a</b> In [[independent]] sentences introduced by noli velle, [[where]] noli has [[lost]] the [[idea]] of [[volition]]: nolite, judices, hunc velle maturius exstingui vulnere vestro [[quam]] suo fato, do not [[resolve]], Cic. Cael. 32, 79: nolite [[igitur]] id velle [[quod]] fieri non potest, id. Phil. 7, 8, 25: qui [[timor]] bonis omnibus injectus [[sit]] ... nolite a me commoneri velle, do not [[wish]], [[expect]], to be reminded by me, etc., id. Mur. 25, 50: nolite hunc [[illi]] acerbum nuntium velle perferri, [[let]] it not be [[your]] [[decision]] [[that]], etc., id. Balb. 28, 64: cujus auspicia pro [[vobis]] experti nolite [[adversus]] vos velle experiri, do not [[desire]], etc., Liv. 7, 40, 16: noli adversum eos me velle ducere, etc., Nep. Att. 4, 2.—<br /> <b>b</b> Ne velis or ne velit fecisse = ne feceris, or ne facito (v. I. A. 3. a. [[supra]]).—So ne velis [[with]] pres. inf.: [[neve]], revertendi [[liber]], abesse velis (= [[neve]] abfueris), Ov. H. 1, 80.—<br /> <b>c</b> In [[affirmative]] [[imperative]] sentences (velim esse = esto; [[rare]]): tu [[tantum]] fida sorori Esse velis (= fida esto or sis), Ov. M. 2, 745; and in 3d pers.: di [[procul]] a cunctis ... Hujus notitiam gentis habere velint (= habeant), id. P. 1, 7, 8: credere [[modo]] qui discet velit (= credat qui discet), Quint. 8, prooem. 12. —<br /> <b>d</b> In clauses [[dependent]] on verbs of [[commanding]] and wishing: aut [[quia]] [[significant]] divam praedicere ut armis Ac virtute velint patriam defendere terram (= ut [[defendant]]), Lucr. 2, 641: [[precor]] quaesoque ne [[ante]] oculos patris facere et pati omnia infanda velis (= facias et patiaris). Liv. 23, 9, 2: monentes ne experiri vellet [[imperium]] cujus vis, etc., id. 2, 59, 4; 39, 13, 2: et mea ... [[opto]] Vulnera qui fecit facta levare velit, Ov. Tr. 5, 2, 18: nos [[contra]] (oravimus) ... ne vertere [[secum]] Cuncta [[pater]] fatoque urguenti incumbere vellet, Verg. A. 2, 653. —With [[pass]]. perf. inf. (v. I. B. 9. b. β): legati Sullam orant ut filii innocentis fortunas conservatas velit ([[virtually]] = fortunas conservet), Cic. Rosc. Am. 9, 25: a te [[peto]] ut utilitatem sociorum per te [[quam]] [[maxime]] defensam et auctam velis (= defendas et augeas), id. Fam. 13, 9, 3.—So [[after]] [[utinam]] or ut: [[utinam]] [[illi]] qui [[prius]] eum viderint me [[apud]] eum velint adjutum [[tantum]] [[quantum]] ego vellem si [[quid]] possem (= [[utinam]] [[illi]] me adjuvent [[quantum]] ego adjuvarem, etc.), id. Att. 11, 7, 7: cautius ut saevo velles te credere Marti (= [[utinam]] te credidisses), Verg. A. 11, 153: [[edictum]] praemittit ad [[quam]] diem [[magistratus]] ... sibi esse [[praesto]] Cordubae vellet (= sibi [[praesto]] essent), Caes. B. C. 1, 19 (cf. also I. B. 9. b. β, and I. B. 2. fin. [[supra]]).—<br /> <b>2</b> In conditional clauses, si facere velim = si faciam, [[often]] rendered by the potential or [[future]] auxiliaries would or [[will]]: non tu scis, Bacchae bacchanti si velis advorsarier, ex insanā insaniorem [[facies]]? (= si advorseris), Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 80: si [[meum]] Imperium exsequi voluisset, interemptam oportuit (= si executus esset), Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 22: si id confiteri velim, [[tamen]] istum condemnetis [[necesse]] est (= si id confitear), if I would [[acknowledge]], Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 18, § 45: si [[quis]] velit ita dicere ... [[nihil]] dicat (= si [[quis]] dicat), id. Fat. 14, 32: [[dies]] deficiat si velim numerare, etc., id. N. D. 3, 32, 81; so, id. Tusc. 5, 35, 102; id. Verr. 2, 2, 21, § 52: quā in sententiā si constare voluissent, suam auctoritatem ... recuperassent, id. Fam. 1, 9, 14; id. Verr. 2, 1, 11, § 31; id. Lael. 20, 75: conicere potestis, si recordari volueritis quanta, etc., if [[you]] [[will]] [[remember]], id. Verr. 2, 4, 58, § 129; so id. Or. 1, 44, 197; id. Brut. 1, 2, 5: [[quod]] si audire voletis externa, maximas res publicas ab adulescentibus labefactatas reperietis, id. Sen. 6, 20; so id. Or. 1, 60, 256; 2, 23, 95: ejus me compotem voti vos facere potestis, si meminisse vultis, non vos in Samnio, etc., Liv. 7, 40, 5; 23, 13, 6; 23, 15, 4: cum olera Diogeni lavanti [[Aristippus]] dixisset: si Dionysium adulare velles, ista non esses; Imo, inquit, si tu ista esse velles, non adulares Dionysium, Val. Max. 4, 3, ext. 4: ut si his (legibus) [[perpetuo]] uti voluissent, [[sempiternum]] habituri fuerint [[imperium]], id. 5, 3, ext. 3: [[quid]] [[enim]] si mirari velit, non in silvestribus dumis poma pendere, Sen. Ira, 2, 10, 6; cf. Curt. 5, 1, 1; 3, 5, 6; Ov. H. 17 (18), 43.—With perf. inf. [[pass]].: [[nisi]] ea ([[opera]]) certi auctores monumentis suis testata esse voluissent, Val. Max. 3, 2, 24.—<br /> <b>3</b> In declarative sentences.<br /> <b>a</b> Volo in 1st pers. [[with]] perf. [[pass]]. inf. or [[part]]. ([[volo]] [[oratum]] esse or [[oratum]] = oro; v. I. B. 9. b. α and β): vos omnes opere magno esse oratos [[volo]] [[benigne]] ut operam detis, etc., Plaut. Cas. prol. 21: justam rem et facilem esse oratam a [[vobis]] [[volo]], id. Am. prol. 33: illud [[tamen]] te esse [[admonitum]] [[volo]], etc., Cic. Cael. 3, 8: sed [[etiam]] est paucis vos [[quod]] monitos voluerim, Plaut. Capt. prol. 53: illud te, Tulli, [[monitum]] velim etc., Liv. 1, 23, 8: [[quamobrem]] omnes eos oratos [[volo]] Ne, etc., Ter. Heaut. prol. 26; so, [[factum]] [[volo]] = faciam: [[serva]] [[tibi]] sodalem, et mihi filium. Mne. Factum [[volo]], I [[will]], Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 91: [[pariter]] [[nunc]] [[opera]] me adjuves ac, etc. Nau. Factum [[volo]], Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 4; so Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 10.—In 3d pers.: esse salutatum vult te mea [[littera]] [[primum]], Ov. P. 2, 7, 1.—<br /> <b>b</b> With pres. inf.: [[propterea]] te vocari ad cenam [[volo]] (= [[voco]] te), Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 72: sed [[nunc]] rogare hoc ego [[vicissim]] te [[volo]]: [[quid]] fuit, etc. (= [[nunc]] te [[rogo]]), id. Trin. 1, 2, 136.—<br /> <b>c</b> With perf. [[act]]. inf.: [[pace]] tuā dixisse velim (= [[pace]] tuā dixerim), Ov. P. 3, 1, 9.—<br /> <b>d</b> In [[other]] connections, [[when]] the [[will]] or [[purpose]] is made [[more]] [[prominent]] [[than]] the [[action]]: eorum [[alter]], qui [[Antiochus]] vocatur, [[iter]] per Siciliam facere voluit (= fecit), Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 27, § 61: si suscipere eam (religionem) nolletis, [[tamen]] in eo qui violasset sancire vos velle oporteret (= sancire vos oporteret), id. ib. 2, 4, 51, § 114: ut insequentibus diebus [[nemo]] eorum [[forum]] aut publicum adspicere vellet (= adspiceret), Liv. 9, 7, 11: talentis [[mille]] percussorem in me [[emere]] voluisti (= emisti), Curt. 3, 5, 6: [[quin]] [[etiam]] [[senatus]] gratias ei agentem [[quod]] redire voluisset [[ante]] portas eduxit (= [[quod]] redisset), Val. Max. 3, 4, 4: utri [[prius]] gratulemur, qui hoc dicere voluit, an cui audire contigit? (= qui hoc dixit), id. 4, 7, ext. 2: sic tua non paucae carpere facta volent (= carpent), Ov. P. 3, 1, 64.<br /> <b>B</b> Velim, as potential subjunctive ([[mostly]] in 1st pers. [[sing]]., as subjunctive of [[modest]] [[statement]]), = [[volo]], I [[wish]], I should [[like]].<br /> <b>1</b> With [[verb]] in the [[second]] [[person]].<br /> <b>a</b> With pres. subj., so [[most]] [[frequently]] in Cic.<br /> <b>(a)</b> As a [[modest]] [[imperative]] of the [[dependent]] [[verb]]: velim facias = fac, I [[wish]] [[you]] would do it, [[please]] do it: ego quae in rem tuam sint, ea velim facias, Ter. Phorm. 2, 4, 9: eas (litteras) in eundem fasciculum velim addas, Cic. Att. 12, 53: eum salvere jubeas velim, id. ib. 7, 7, 7: velim me facias certiorem, etc., id. ib. 1, 19, 9: tu velim [[saepe]] ad nos scribas, id. ib. 1, 12, 4: velim mihi ignoscas, id. Fam. 13, 75, 1: tu velim animum a me [[parumper]] avertas, id. Lael. 1, 5; cf. id. Att. 1, 11, 3; 7, 3, 11; 8, 12, 5; id. Fam. 15, 3, 2 et saep.: haec pro causā meā dicta accipiatis velim, Liv. 42, 34, 13: velim, inquit, hoc mihi probes, Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 51: [[Musa]] velim memores, etc., Hor. S. 1, 5, 53.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Expressing a [[wish]] [[without]] a [[command]] (v. vellem): vera dicas velim, I [[wish]] [[you]] told the [[truth]], Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 18: [[quam]] velim Bruto persuadeas ut Asturae [[sit]], Cic. Att. 14, 15, 4: [[ipse]] velim poenas experiare meas, Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 74; so in asseverations: ita velim me promerentem [[ames]], dum vivas, mi [[pater]], ut ... id mihi [[vehementer]] dolet, Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 47.—<br /> <b>b</b> With infinitive [[clause]].<br /> <b>(a)</b> With the [[force]] of a [[modest]] [[imperative]]: sed qui [[istuc]] credam ita esse, mihi dici velim (i. e. a te), Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 15: extremum illud est [[quod]] mihi abs te responderi velim, Cic. Vat. 17, 41 ([[may]] be a [[dependent]] subjunctive): [[itaque]] vos ego, milites, non eo [[solum]] [[animo]] .... pugnare velim, etc., Liv. 21, 41, 10.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> As a [[mere]] [[wish]]: velim te arbitrari, [[frater]], etc., Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 1: [[primum]] te arbitrari id [[quod]] res est velim, Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 9.—With perf. [[act]].: hanc te [[quoque]] ad ceteras tuas eximias virtutes, [[Masinissa]], adjecisse velim, Liv. 30, 14, 6.—With perf. [[pass]]., Liv. 1, 23, 8 (v. II. A. 3. a. [[supra]]).—<br /> <b>c</b> With ut ([[rare]]): de tuis velim ut eo sis [[animo]], quo debes esse, Cic. Fam. 4, 14, 4. —<br /> <b>d</b> With ne ([[rare]]), Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 23 (v. I. C. 2. [[supra]]).—<br /> <b>2</b> With [[dependent]] [[verb]] in the [[third]] [[person]], expressing a [[wish]].<br /> <b>a</b> With pres. subj.: ita se defatigent velim Ut, etc., Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 3: de Cicerone quae mihi scribis, jucunda mihi sunt: velim sint prospera, Cic. Att. 14, 11, 2: velim seu Himilco, seu [[Mago]] respondeat, Liv. 23, 12, 15: sint haec vera velim, Verg. Cir. 306: nulla me velim [[syllaba]] effugiat, Quint. 11, 2, 45.—With [[final]] [[clause]]: tu velim mihi ad urbem [[praesto]] sis, ut tuis consiliis utar, Cic. Att. 9, 16, 3; cf. id. ib. 11, 11, 2 (v. I. C. 2. [[supra]]).—With ellips. of pres. subj.: velim mehercule Asturae [[Brutus]] (i. e. [[sit]]), Cic. Att. 14, 11, 1.—<br /> <b>b</b> With perf. subj. (a [[wish]] referring to the [[past]]): [[nimis]] velim improbissumo homini malas edentaverint, Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 48.—<br /> <b>c</b> With inf.-[[clause]]: ne ego [[nunc]] mihi [[modium]] [[mille]] esse argenti velim! Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 9: di me perdant! Me. Quodcunque optes, velim [[tibi]] contingere, id. Cist. 2, 1, 30: velim eum [[tibi]] placere [[quam]] [[maxime]], Cic. Brut. 71, 249: idque [[primum]] ita esse velim; [[deinde]] [[etiam]], si non [[sit]], mihi persuaderi [[tamen]] velim, id. Tusc. 1, 11, 24: [[quod]] faxitis, deos velim fortunare, Liv. 6, 41, 12.—With perf. [[pass]]. inf. (v. I. B. 9. b. β, [[supra]]): [[edepol]] te [[hodie]] lapide percussum velim, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 33: moribus praefectum mulierum hunc [[factum]] velim, id. Aul. 3, 5, 30.—With inf.-[[clause]] understood: [[nimium]] [[plus]] [[quam]] velim nostrorum ingenia sunt mobilia, Liv. 2, 37, 4.—<br /> <b>3</b> With [[verb]] in the [[first]] [[person]].<br /> <b>a</b> With inf. pres. (so [[most]] freq.): [[atque]] hoc velim probare omnibus, etc., Cic. Prov. Cons. 20, 47: velim scire ecquid de te recordere, id. Tusc. 1, 6, 13: [[quare]] te, ut polliceris, videre [[plane]] velim, id. Att. 11, 9, 3: nec [[vero]] velim ... a calce ad carceres revocari, id. Sen. 23, 83: sed [[multitudo]] ea [[quid]] animorum ... habeat scire velim, Liv. 23, 12, 7: interrogare [[tamen]] velim, an [[Isocrates]] [[Attice]] dixerit, Quint. 12, 10, 22.—With perf. inf. [[act]]., Ov. P. 3, 1, 9 (v. II. A. 3. c.).—<br /> <b>b</b> With acc. and inf.: [[quod]] velis, [[modo]] id velim me scire, Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 8.—So [[with]] perf. [[pass]]. inf.: ego [[praeterquam]] [[quod]] [[nihil]] haustum ex [[vano]] velim, Fabium ... potissimum auctorem habui, Liv. 22, 7, 4.—<br /> <b>c</b> With subj. pres.: eo velim tam facili uti possim et tam bono in me [[quam]] Curione, Cic. Att. 10, 8, 10 B. and K. ex conj. Müll. (Lachm., Hoffm. posse; al. possem).—<br /> <b>4</b> Velim in the [[principal]] [[sentence]] of conditional clauses, I would, I should be [[willing]]: aetatem velim servire, Libanum ut (= si) conveniam [[modo]], Plaut. As. 2, 2, 8: velim, si fieri possit, id. Truc. 2, 4, 12: si [[quid]] [[tibi]] compendi facere possim, [[factum]] [[edepol]] velim ([[redundant]]), id. ib. 2, 4, 26: si possim, velim, id. Stich. 4, 2, 9: nec velim (imitari orationes Thucydidis) si possim, Cic. Brut. 83, 287: si liceat, nulli [[cognitus]] esse velim, Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 42.—<br /> <b>5</b> The [[other]] persons of velim in potential [[use]] ([[rare]]).<br /> <b>a</b> Velis.<br /> <b>(a)</b> Imperatively = cupito: [[quoniam]] non potest fieri [[quod]] vis, Id velis [[quod]] possit, Ter. And. 2, 1, 6: [[atque]] aliquos [[tamen]] esse velis [[tibi]], [[alumna]], penates, Verg. Cir. 331.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Declaratively [[with]] indef. subj.: [[quom]] [[inopia]]'st, cupias; [[quando]] ejus [[copia]]'st, tum non velis, [[then]] [[you]] (i.e. [[people]], [[they]]) do not [[want]] it, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 45.—<br /> <b>(g)</b> Redundant, as a form of the [[imperative]] of the [[dependent]] [[verb]], Ov. Am. 1, 4, 38 (v. I. A. 3. a. β); id. H. 1, 80 (v. II. A. 1. b.); id. M. 2, 746 (v. II. A. 1. c.).—<br /> <b>b</b> Velit.<br /> <b>(a)</b> Modestly for vult: te [[super]] aetherias licentius auras Haud [[pater]] [[ille]] velit, etc., Verg. A. 7, 558: [[nemo]] [[enim]] minui velit id in quo [[maximus]] fuit, would [[like]] [[that]] to be diminished in [[which]], etc., Quint. 12, 11, 6; cf. Verg. A. 2, 104, and Ov. H. 9, 7 (v. I. E. 1. c. [[supra]]).— So, [[poet]]., [[instead]] of vellet [[with]] perf. inf.: ut fiat, [[quid]] non [[illa]] dedisse velit? Ov. Am. 2, 17, 30.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> = [[imperative]] of [[third]] [[person]]: [[arma]] velit, poscatque [[simul]] rapiatque juventus, Verg. A. 7, 340.—Redundantly, giving to the [[dependent]] [[verb]] the [[force]] of an [[imperative]], Quint. 8, prooem. 12 (v. II. A. 1. c. [[supra]]; v. also I. A. 3. a. [[supra]]).—<br /> <b>c</b> Velimus.<br /> <b>(a)</b> In the optative [[sense]] of velim: sed scire velimus [[quod]] [[tibi]] [[nomen]] siet, Plaut. Pers. 4, 6, 18.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> With [[imperative]] [[sense]] (= [[let]] us, we should, etc.), Quint. 6, 3, 28 (v. I. A. 2. d. [[supra]]).—<br /> <b>d</b> Velitis = velim velitis (i. e. jubeatis, jubete): novos consules ita cum Samnite gerere [[bellum]] velitis ut omnia [[ante]] nos bella [[gesta]] sunt, Liv. 9, 8, 10.—So [[especially]] in velitis jubeatis, a [[formula]] in submitting a [[law]] to the votes of the [[people]] in the [[comitia]] centuriata or tributa, [[let]] it be resolved and [[ordered]] by [[you]]: [[rogatus]] in haec verba [[populus]]: velitis jubeatisne haec sic fieri, si [[respublica]] populi Romani Quiritium, etc., Liv. 22, 10, 2: velitis jubeatis, [[Quirites]] ... uti de eā re Ser. [[Sulpicius]] [[praetor]] [[urbanus]] ad senatum referat, etc., id. 38, 54, 3.—And parodied by Cic.: velitis jubeatis ut [[quod]] [[Cicero]] [[versum]] fecerit, Cic. Pis. 29, 72.—So in [[oblique]] [[discourse]], vellent juberent: rogationem promulgavit, vellent juberent Philippo ... [[bellum]] indici, Liv. 31, 6, 1: vellent juberentne se regnare, id. 1, 46, 1; cf. in the [[resolution]] of the [[people]]: [[plebis]] sic jussit: [[quod]] [[senatus]] ... censeat, id volumus jubemusque, id. 26, 33, 14.—<br /> <b>e</b> Velint, optative and [[redundant]], Cic. Att. 11, 7, 7 (v. II. A. 1. d.); Ov. P. 1, 7, 8 (v. II. A. 1. c.).<br /> <b>C</b> Vellem, as potential subjunctive, I [[wish]], should [[like]], should [[have]] liked, representing the [[wish]] as [[contrary]] to [[fact]], [[while]] velim refers to a [[wish]] [[which]] [[may]] be realized: de Menedemo vellem [[verum]] fuisset, de reginā velim [[verum]] [[sit]], Cic. Att. 15, 4, 4. It is not used [[with]] [[imperative]] [[force]]; cf.: [[quod]] scribis, putare te ... vellem scriberes, [[cur]] ita putares ... tu [[tamen]] velim scribas, Cic. Att. 11, 24, 5.—Often [[quam]] vellem, [[how]] I [[wish]], i. e. I [[wish]] [[very]] [[much]]; and in the [[same]] [[sense]]: [[nimium]] vellem,<br /> v. [[infra]].<br /> <b>1</b> With [[verb]] in [[first]] [[person]].<br /> <b>a</b> With inf. pres., I [[wish]], would [[like]], referring to [[present]] or [[future]] actions: videre [[equidem]] vos vellem, cum huic [[aurum]] darem, Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 68: vellem [[equidem]] [[idem]] posse gloriari [[quod]] [[Cyrus]], Cic. Sen. 10, 32: vellem [[equidem]] [[vobis]] placere, [[Quirites]], sed, etc., Liv. 3, 68, 9: [[quam]] fieri vellem [[meus]] [[libellus]]! Mart. 8, 72, 9.—With cuperem and optarem: [[nunc]] ego Triptolemi cuperem conscendere [[currus]] ... Nunc ego Medeae vellem frenare dracones ... Nunc ego jactandas optarem sumere pennas, etc., Ov. Tr. 3, 8, 1 sqq.— Rarely, I should [[have]] liked: tum [[equidem]] [[istuc]] os tuum inpudens videre [[nimium]] vellem! Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 49.—And in conditional [[sense]]: maerorem minui: dolorem nec potui, nec, si possem, vellem (i. e. minuere), Cic. Att. 12, 28, 2: [[certe]] ego, si sineres, titulum [[tibi]] reddere vellem, Ov. Tr. 4, 5, 13: sic nec amari [[quidem]] vellem (i. e. if I were in his [[place]]), Sen. Ira, 1, 20, 4.—<br /> <b>b</b> With perf. inf., I [[wish]] I had: abiit, vah! Rogasse vellem, I [[wish]] I had asked him, Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 25: [[maxime]] vellem [[semper]] [[tecum]] fuisse, Cic. Att. 8, 11, D, 5: [[quam]] vellem petisse ab eo [[quod]] [[audio]] Philippum impetrasse, id. ib. 10, 4, 10: non [[equidem]] vellem, [[quoniam]] nocitura fuerunt, Pieridum sacris imposuisse manum, Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 27: [[ante]] [[equidem]] summā de re statuisse, Latini, Et vellem, et fuerat [[melius]], Verg. A. 11, 303. —<br /> <b>c</b> With inf.-[[clause]], the [[predicate]] [[being]] a perf. [[part]]. (v. I. B. 9. b. β, [[supra]]): virum me natam vellem, would I had been [[born]] a [[man]]! Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 9.—<br /> <b>d</b> With subj. imperf. ([[rare]]): [[quam]] vellem, Panaetium [[nostrum]] [[nobiscum]] haberemus, Cic. Rep. 1, 10, 15.—<br /> <b>2</b> The [[subject]] of the [[dependent]] [[verb]] in the [[second]] [[person]].<br /> <b>a</b> With subj. imperf. (the [[regular]] [[construction]]): [[hodie]] [[igitur]] me videbit, ac vellem tum tu adesses, I [[wish]] [[you]] could be [[present]], Cic. Att. 13, 7, 2: [[quam]] vellem de his [[etiam]] oratoribus [[tibi]] dicere luberet, I [[wish]] [[you]] would [[please]], id. Brut. 71, 248.—<br /> <b>b</b> With subj. pluperf., I [[wish]] [[you]] had: vellem Idibus Martiis me ad cenam invitasses, Cic. Fam. 12, 4, 1: [[quam]] vellem te ad Stoicos inclinavisses, id. Fin. 3, 3, 10: vellem suscepisses juvenem regendum, id. Att. 10, 6, 2: [[quam]] vellem Bruto [[studium]] tuum navare potuisses, id. ib. 15, 4, 5.—<br /> <b>c</b> With ne and pluperf. subj.: tu vellem ne [[veritus]] esses ne [[parum]] [[libenter]] legerem tuas litteras, Cic. Fam. 7, 33, 2.—<br /> <b>d</b> With [[ellipsis]] of [[verb]]: vera cantas, vana vellem (i. e. cantares). Plaut. Most. 3, 4, 41.—<br /> <b>3</b> With [[verb]] in [[third]] [[person]].<br /> <b>a</b> With imperf. subj. (the [[regular]] [[construction]]): patrem [[atque]] matrem viverent vellem [[tibi]] (per ecthesin, v. I. E. b.), Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 106: vellem adesset [[Antonius]], [[modo]] [[sine]] advocatis, Cic. Phil. 1, 7, 16: vellem nobis hoc [[idem]] [[vere]] dicere liceret, id. Off. 3, 1, 1: vellem adesse posset [[Panaetius]], id. Tusc. 1, 33, 81: vellem hoc esset laborare, id. Or. 2, 71, 287.—<br /> <b>b</b> With pluperf. subj.: vellem [[aliqui]] ex [[vobis]] robustioribus hunc [[male]] dicendi locum suscepissent, Cic. Cael. 3, 7: vellem [[dictum]] esset ab [[eodem]] [[etiam]] de [[Dione]], id. ib. 10, 23; so id. ib. 31, 74; id. Brut. 44, 163: [[quam]] vellem [[Dareus]] aliquid ex hac indole hausisset! Curt. 3, 32 (12), 26.—<br /> <b>c</b> With inf.-[[clause]].<br /> <b>(a)</b> With inf. pres., I [[wish]] he were: [[quam]] non abesse ab hujus judicio L. Vulsionem vellem! Cic. Clu. 70, 198: [[nunc]] mihi ... Vellem, Maeonide, [[pectus]] inesse tuum, Ov. F. 2, 120.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> With perf. inf. or [[part]]., I [[wish]] he had, had been: [[quam]] vellem Menedemum invitatum! Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 11: epistulas, quas [[quidem]] vellem mihi [[numquam]] redditas, Cic. Att. 11, 22, 1.— With [[ellipsis]] of [[predicate]]: illud [[quoque]] vellem [[antea]] (i. e. [[factum]], or [[factum]] esse), Cic. Att. 11, 23, 3.—<br /> <b>d</b> With ut, Cic. Sull. 1, 1; id. Fam. 7, 33, 2 (v. I. C. 1. a. [[supra]]).—<br /> <b>4</b> With acc. of a [[neuter]] pronoun or of a [[noun]]: [[aliquando]] sentiam us [[nihil]] nobis [[nisi]], id [[quod]] [[minime]] vellem, spiritum reliquum esse, Cic. Att. 9, 19, 2: [[tris]] eos libros [[maxime]] [[nunc]] vellem: apti essent ad id [[quod]] [[cogito]], I would [[like]] to [[have]] (cf. I. E. 1. a.), id. ib. 13, 22, 2.—<br /> <b>5</b> In the [[other]] persons of vellem ([[mostly]] [[poet]].).<br /> <b>a</b> Velles.<br /> <b>(a)</b> In optative sentences [[redundant]], Verg. A. 11, 153 (v. II. A. 1. d.).—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Of an [[indefinite]] [[subject]]: velles eum (Senecam) suo ingenio dixisse, [[alieno]] judicio, Quint. 10, 1, 130.—<br /> <b>b</b> Vellet.<br /> <b>(a)</b> In the potential [[sense]] of vellem: vellet abesse [[quidem]]; sed adest. Velletque videre, Non [[etiam]] sentire canum [[fera]] facta suorum, Ov. M. 3, 247.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Conditionally: [[quis]] vellet tanti [[nuntius]] esse mali (i. e. if in this [[situation]])? Ov. H. 12, 146.—<br /> <b>c</b> Vellent.<br /> <b>(a)</b> In the potential [[sense]] of vellem: [[quam]] vellent aethere in [[alto]] Nunc of pauperiem et duros perferre labores! Verg. A. 6, 436.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Conditionally: nec [[superi]] vellent hoc licuisse sibi, would [[wish]], i. e. if in this [[situation]], Mart. 4, 44, 8.<br /> <b>D</b> Volam and voluero.<br /> <b>1</b> In gen.: respiciendus erit [[sermo]] stipulationis, utrumne [[talis]] [[sit]]: quem voluero, an quem volam. Nam si [[talis]] fuerit quem voluero, cum [[semel]] elegerit, mutare voluntatem non poterit; si [[vero]] ... quem volam, [[donec]] judicium dictet, mutandi potestatem habebit, Dig. 45, 1, 112.—<br /> <b>2</b> Volam in [[principal]] sentences.<br /> <b>(a)</b> = Engl. [[future]], I shall [[wish]], etc.: et commeminisse hoc ego volam te, I shall [[require]] [[you]] to [[recollect]] this, Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 7: cum omnia habueris, [[tunc]] habere et sapientiam voles? [[will]] [[you]] also [[wish]] to [[have]] [[wisdom]] [[when]]? etc., Sen. Ep. 17, 8.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Denoting [[present]] [[probability]]: et [[scilicet]] jam me hoc voles patrem exorare, ut, etc., [[you]] [[doubtless]] [[wish]] me, etc., Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 27.—<br /> <b>3</b> In clauses [[dependent]] on predicates implying a [[future]], [[generally]] rendered by an English [[present]]: [[quid]] si [[sors]] [[aliter]] [[quam]] voles evenerit? [[otherwise]] [[than]] as [[you]] [[wish]], Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 35: tum te, si voles, cum patriae [[quod]] debes solveris, [[satis]] diu vixisse dicito, [[then]] if [[you]] [[choose]], if [[you]] [[will]], Cic. Marcell. 9, 27: decedes cum voles, id. Att. 6, 3, 2: qui [[magis]] effugies eos qui volent fingere? those [[who]] are [[bent]] [[upon]] inventing, [[who]] [[will]] [[invent]], falsehoods, id. ib. 8, 2, 2; cf. id. ib. 1, 1, 4; id. Verr. 2, 4, 25, § 55; id. Prov. Cons. 9, 24: [[quod]] voles gratum esse, rarum effice, Sen. Ben. 1, 14, 1; cf. id. Brev. Vit. 7, 9: si di volent, the gods permitting, August. ap. Suet. Calig. 8: invenies, [[vere]] si reperire voles, Ov. P. 3, 1, 34; cf. Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 78; Tib. 1, 4, 45.—So, voluero: quem (locum) si qui vitare voluerit, [[sex]] [[milium]] circuitu in [[oppidum]] pervenit, [[who]] wishes to [[avoid]] this [[spot]], Caes. B. C. 2, 24.<br /> <b>E</b> Si vis, parenthetically.<br /> <b>1</b> If [[you]] [[please]] (cf. sis, [[supra]] init.): [[paulum]] opperirier, Si vis, Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 52: audi, si vis, [[nunc]] jam, id. Ad. 2, 1, 30: dic, si vis, de quo disputari velis, Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 13.—<br /> <b>2</b> If [[you]] [[wish]], [[choose]], [[insist]] [[upon]] it: hanc [[quoque]] jucunditatem, si vis, [[transfer]] in animum, Cic. Fin. 2, 4, 14: addam, si vis, animi, etc., id. ib. 2, 27, 89: concedam hoc ipsum, si vis, etc., id. Div. 2, 15, 34.<br /> <b>F</b> Quam, [[with]] [[any]] [[person]] of the pres. indic. or subj., or imperf. subj. or [[future]], = [[quamvis]], in a concessive [[sense]], [[virtually]], [[however]], [[however]] [[much]].<br /> <b>1</b> 3d pers. [[sing]].: [[quod]] [[illa]], [[quam]] velit [[sit]] [[potens]], [[numquam]] impetravisset (= [[quamvis]] [[sit]] [[potens]]), [[however]] [[powerful]] she [[may]] be, Cic. Cael. 26, 63: C. [[Gracchus]] dixit, sibi in somnis Ti. fratrem [[visum]] esse dicere, [[quam]] vellet cunctaretur, [[tamen]] [[eodem]] sibi [[leto]] ... esse pereundum, id. Div. 1, 26, 56: [[quam]] volet jocetur, id. N. D. 2, 17, 46.—<br /> <b>2</b> 1st pers. plur.: [[quam]] volumus [[licet]] ipsi nos amemus, [[tamen]], etc., Cic. Har. Resp. 9, 19.—<br /> <b>3</b> 2d pers. plur.: exspectate [[facinus]] [[quam]] vultis improbum, vincam [[tamen]], etc., [[expect]] a [[crime]], [[however]] [[wicked]] ([[ever]] so [[wicked]]), etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 5, § 11; [[but]]: hac actione [[quam]] voletis multi dicent, as [[many]] as [[you]] [[choose]], id. ib. 2, 2, 42, § 102.—<br /> <b>4</b> 3d pers. plur.: [[quam]] volent [[illi]] cedant, [[tamen]] a re publicā revocabuntur, Cic. Phil. 2, 44, 113: [[quam]] volent in conviviis faceti, dicaces, etc., sint, [[alia]] [[fori]] vis est, [[alia]] triclinii, id. Cael. 28, 67; [[but]]: et ceteri [[quam]] volent magnas pecunias capere possint, as [[much]] [[money]] as [[they]] [[choose]], id. Verr. 2, 2, 58, § 142.<br /> Volo = [[malo]], to [[prefer]], [[with]] a [[comparative]] [[clause]] ([[rare]]): quodsi in ceteris [[quoque]] studiis a multis eligere homines commodissimum quodque, [[quam]] [[sese]] uni alicui [[certo]] vellent addicere, = si se eligere mallent [[quam]] se uni addicere, Cic. Inv. 2, 2, 5: malae rei [[quam]] nullius duces esse volunt, Liv. 3, 68, 11: famaene credi velis quanta [[urbs]] a te [[capta]] [[sit]], [[quam]] posteris [[quoque]] eam spectando esse? id. 25, 29, 6.<br /> With [[magis]] and [[maxime]].<br /> <b>1</b> Magis velle: ut tu illam salvam [[magis]] velles [[quam]] ego, [[you]] [[wish]] [[more]] [[than]] I, etc., Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 17.—<br /> <b>2</b> With [[maxime]], to [[wish]] [[above]] all, [[more]] [[than]] [[any]] [[thing]] or [[any]] one [[else]], to be [[most]] [[agreeable]] to one, to [[like]] [[best]], to [[prefer]] ([[among]] [[more]] [[than]] [[two]] alternatives): [[quia]] id [[maxime]] [[volo]] ut [[illi]] [[istoc]] confugiant, [[wish]] [[above]] all, Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 49; so id. Trin. 3, 2, 38: [[maxime]] vellem, judices, ut P. [[Sulla]], etc., Cic. Sull. 1, 1: caritate nos capiunt reges, consilio optimates, libertate populi, ut in comparando [[difficile]] ad eligendum [[sit]], [[quid]] [[maxime]] velis, [[which]] [[you]] [[prefer]], [[like]] [[best]], id. Rep. 1, 35, 55; so, [[quemadmodum]] ego [[maxime]] vellem, id. Att. 13, 1, 1: [[tris]] eos libros [[maxime]] [[nunc]] vellem, [[above]] all others, id. ib. 13, 32, 2: [[alia]] excusanti juveni, [[alia]] recipienti futura, ita ut [[maxime]] vellet [[senatus]] responderi placuit, as it [[was]] [[most]] [[agreeable]] to him, Liv. 39, 47: si di [[tibi]] permisissent quo [[modo]] [[maxime]] velles experiri animum [[meum]], in the [[manner]] [[most]] [[convenient]] to [[yourself]], Curt. 3, 6, 12.<br /> In disjunctive co - ordination.<br /> <b>1</b> With [[sive]] ... [[sive]]: tu [[nunc]], [[sive]] ego [[volo]], seu [[nolo]], sola me ut vivam facis, [[whether]] I [[choose]] or not, Plaut. Cist. 3, 14: [[itaque]] Campanos [[sive]] velint, [[sive]] nolint, quieturos, Liv. 8, 2, 13.—<br /> <b>2</b> Without connectives.<br /> <b>a</b> Vis tu ... vis: congredi cum hoste liceat ... vis tu mari, vis [[terra]], vis acie, vis urbibus expugnandis experiri virtutem? Liv. 25, 6, 22.—<br /> <b>b</b> Velim nolim.<br /> <b>(a)</b> Interrogatively, = [[utrum]] velim nec ne: velit nolit scire, [[difficile]] est, it is [[difficult]] to [[know]] [[whether]] he intends it or not, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 4.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> = seu velim seu nolim: ut mihi, velim nolim, [[sit]] certa quaedam tuenda [[sententia]], [[whether]] I [[will]] or not, Cic. N. D. 1, 7, 17: velim nolim, in cognomine Scipionum haeream [[necesse]] est, Val. Max. 3, 7, 3: [[mors]] [[interim]] adest, cui velis nolis vacandum est, Sen. Brev. Vit. 8, 5: hunc ita fundatum [[necesse]] est, velit nolit, sequatur [[hilaritas]] continua, id. Vit. Beat. 4, 4: velint nolint, respondendum est ... [[beate]] vivere [[bonum]] non esse, id. Ep. 117, 4: [[praeterea]] futuri principes, velint nolint, sciant, etc., Plin. [[Pan]]. 20 fin.Part. and P. a.: vŏlens, entis.<br /> <b>A</b> As a [[part]]. [[proper]], retaining the [[meaning]] and [[construction]] of velle, [[with]] the [[force]] of a [[relative]] or adverbial [[clause]].<br /> <b>1</b> Agreeing [[with]] [[some]] [[member]] of the [[sentence]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-[[class]]. [[prose]]; [[rare]]): [[neque]] illum ... [[multa]] volentem Dicere [[praeterea]] vidit (= qui [[multa]] voluit dicere), Verg. G. 4, 501; id. A. 2, 790: nec me vis ulla volentem Avertet (i. e. si adhaerere foederi [[volo]]), id. ib. 12, 203: [[decemviri]], minuere volentes hujuscemodi violentiam ... putaverunt, etc., intending ([[who]] intended) to [[diminish]] [[such]] a [[violence]], etc., Gell. 20, 1, 34: [[Milo]], experiri etiamtunc [[volens]], an ullae sibi reliquae [[vires]] adessent ... rescindere quercum [[conatus]] est, id. 15, 16, 3: [[scio]] quosdam testatores, efficere volentes ne servi sui [[umquam]] ad libertatem venirent, etc., [[hactenus]] scribere solitos, Dig. 40, 4, 61: si te volentem ad prohibendum venire, deterruerit [[aliquis]], etc., ib. 43, 24, 1, § 10.—<br /> <b>2</b> Abl. absol. (not [[ante]]-Aug.): ne cujus militis scripti [[nomen]] [[nisi]] ipso volente deleretur, [[except]] [[with]] his [[consent]], Liv. 7, 41, 4; so, Teum ex [[medio]] cursu classem [[repente]] avertit, aut volentibus iis usurus commeatu parato hostibus, aut ipsos pro hostibus habiturus, [[with]] [[their]] [[consent]], id. 37, 27, 3: ponuntque [[ferocia]] [[Poeni]] Corda, volente deo, [[since]] the [[god]] willed it, Verg. A. 1, 303: Thrasippo [[supplicium]] a se voluntariā morte exigere volente, [[while]] he [[was]] [[about]] to [[inflict]] [[punishment]] on [[himself]], etc., Val. Max. 5, 1, ext. 2: scire volentibus immortalibus dis an Romana [[virtus]] [[imperium]] [[orbis]] mereretur, it [[being]] the [[will]] of the gods to [[know]], etc., Flor. 1, 13, 3 (1, 7, 3): qui sciente aut volente eo ad quem res pertinet, possessionem nanciscitur, [[with]] the [[knowledge]] and [[consent]] of the [[person]] [[who]], etc., Dig. 41, 2, 6. —<br /> <b>B</b> As adj., [[willing]], [[voluntary]], and [[hence]], favorably disposed (opp. [[invitus]]).<br /> <b>1</b> Attributively.<br /> <b>a</b> In the [[phrase]] cum dis volentibus, lit. [[with]] the [[willing]] or favoring gods, i. e. [[with]] the [[will]], permission, or [[favor]] of the gods: [[dono]] ducite doque volentibu' cum magnis dis, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 38 (Ann. v. 208 Vahl.): sequere hac, mea gnata, me cum dis volentibus, Plaut. Pers. 3, 1, 4: cum dis volentibus quodque [[bene]] eveniat [[mando]] [[tibi]] Mani uti illaec [[suovetaurilia]], etc., [[Cato]], R. R. 141 (142).— And [[without]] cum, abl. absol.: virtute ac dis volentibus magni estis et opulenti, Sall. J. 14, 19.—<br /> <b>b</b> Volenti [[animo]].<br /> <b>(a)</b> = [[cupide]], [[eagerly]]: Romae [[plebes]] litteris quae de Metello ac Mario missae erant, volenti [[animo]] de ambobus acceperant, Sall. J. 73, 3. —<br /> <b>(b)</b> On [[purpose]], [[intentionally]]: consilio hanc omnes animisque volentibus urbem Adferimur, Verg. A. 7, 216.—<br /> <b>2</b> Predicatively.<br /> <b>a</b> Agreeing [[with]] the [[subject]]-nom. or [[subject]] - acc.<br /> <b>(a)</b> Voluntarily, [[willingly]], [[gladly]] ([[class]].): (hi) divini generis appellentur ... vobisque jure et lege volentes pareant, Cic. Univ. 11 fin.: quas victi ab hostibus poenas metuerant, eas ipsi volentes pendere, Sall. J. 76, 6: [[quia]] volentes in amicitiam non veniebant, Liv. 21, 39, 4: si volentes ac non coacti mansissent in amicitiā, id. 24, 37, 7: quocunque [[loco]] seu [[volens]] seu [[invitus]] constitisti, id. 7, 40, 13: [[itaque]] se [[numquam]] volentem parte quā posset rerum consilio gerendarum cessurum, id. 22, 27, 9: ([[virtus]]), [[quidquid]] evenerit, feret, non [[patiens]] [[tantum]], sed [[etiam]] [[volens]], Sen. Vit. Beat. 15, 5: non est referre gratiam [[quod]] [[volens]] acceperis nolenti reddere, id. Ben. 4, 40, 4: [[volens]] vos [[Turnus]] [[adoro]], Verg. A. 10, 677; 3, 457; 6, 146; 12, 833: [[date]] vina volentes, id. ib. 8, 275: ipsa [[autem]] macie tenuant [[armenta]] volentes (on [[purpose]]), id. G. 3, 129.—And referring to subjects denoting things: quos rami [[fructus]], quos ipsa [[volentia]] rura Sponte tulere suā, carpsit ([[spontaneously]] and [[willingly]]), Verg. G. 2, 500.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Favorably; [[with]] [[propitius]], favorably and [[kindly]], referring to the gods: precantes Jovem ut [[volens]] [[propitius]] praebeat sacra [[arma]] pro patriā, Liv. 24, 21, 10: precantibus ut [[volens]] propitiaque urbem Romanam iniret, id. 29, 14, 13: in eā arce (Victoriam) sacratam, volentem propitiamque, firmam ac stabilem [[fore]] [[populo]] Romano, id. 22, 37, 12; 1, 16, 3; 7, 26, 3; 24, 38, 8; Inscr. Orell. 2489 sq.—Parodied by [[Plautus]]: agite, bibite, festivae fores! fite mihi volentes propitiae, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 89.—Abl. absol.: omnia diis propitiis volentibusque ea faciemus, [[with]] the [[favor]] and [[help]] of the gods, Liv. 39, 16, 11 Weissenb. ad loc.: si (Jovem) invocem ut [[dexter]] ac [[volens]] assit, Quint. 4, prooem. 5.—<br /> <b>b</b> Agreeing [[with]] [[other]] terms of the [[sentence]] ([[rare]]): volenti consuli [[causa]] in Pamphyliam devertendi oblata est, a [[welcome]] [[cause]] [[was]] offered to the [[consul]], etc., Liv. 38, 15, 3: [[quod]] nobis volentibus [[facile]] continget, if we [[wish]], Quint. 6, 2, 30: is Ariobarzanem volentibus Armeniis praefecit, to [[their]] [[satisfaction]], Tac. A. 2, 4: gemis ... hominem, Urse, tuum, cui [[dulce]] volenti [[servitium]] ... erat, to whom his [[servitude]] [[was]] [[sweet]], [[since]] he liked it, Stat. S. 2, 6, 15: me mea [[virtus]], etc., fatis egere volentem, Verg. A. 8, 133: [[saepe]] [[ille]] volentem castigabat erum, administered [[kindly]] [[received]] rebukes, Stat. S. 2, 6, 50.—<br /> <b>c</b> In the [[phrase]] aliquid mihi volenti est or putatur, etc., [[something]] is [[welcome]], [[acceptable]] to me, pleases me (= [[volens]] [[habeo]] or [[accipio]] aliquid; cf. the Gr. Ὑμῖν [[ταῦτα]] βουλομένοις ἐστίν, and, mihi aliquid cupienti est; v. [[cupio]]; [[rare]] [[but]] [[class]].): uti militibus exaequatus cum imperatore [[labos]] volentibus esset, [[that]] the equalization of [[labor]] [[was]] [[acceptable]] to the [[soldier]], Sall. J. 100, 4: [[quia]] [[neque]] plebei [[militia]] volenti putabatur, id. ib. 84, 3 Dietsch: [[grande]] [[periculum]] maritumis civitatibus esse, et quibusdam volentibus novas res [[fore]], [[that]] to [[some]] a [[change]] of the [[government]] would be [[welcome]], Liv. 21, 50, 10: quibus [[bellum]] volentibus erat, probare [[exemplum]], Tac. Agr. 18.—Impers. [[with]] [[subject]] - inf.: ceterisque remanere et in verba Vespasiani adigi volentibus fuit, to the [[rest]] it [[was]] [[acceptable]] to [[remain]], etc., Tac. H. 3, 43.—With [[subject]]-inf. understood: si volentibus [[vobis]] erit, in [[medium]] [[profero]] quae ... legisse [[memini]], Macr. S. 7, 13, 11: si volentibus [[vobis]] erit, diem [[fabulis]] et epulis exigamus, id. ib. 1, 7; 2, 3 fin.; 6, 6 init.—<br /> <b>3</b> As subst. ([[mostly]] [[post]]-Aug.).<br /> <b>a</b> vŏlens, entis, m., = is qui vult, in the [[different]] meanings, and [[often]] [[with]] the [[construction]] of the [[verb]].<br /> <b>(a)</b> One [[who]] wishes: [[nunc]] cis Hiberum [[castra]] Romana esse, arcem tutam perfugiumque novas volentibus res, Liv. 22, 22, 11: consulere se volentibus vacuas aures accommodavit, Val. Max. 5, 8, 3: [[quid]] [[opus]] libertate si volentibus luxu perire non [[licet]], id. 2, 9, 5: discere meliora volentibus promptum est, i. e. it depends on [[our]] [[own]] [[will]] to [[learn]] [[better]] things, Quint. 11, 11, 12: nec [[sum]] in hoc [[sollicitus]], dum res ipsa volentibus discere appareat, to the students, id. 8, 4, 15: mori volentibus vis adhibita vivendi, Suet. Tib. 61.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> One [[who]] intends, is [[about]]: juris [[ignorantia]] non prodest acquirere volentibus, i. e. in the [[acquisition]] of [[property]], Dig. 22, 6, 7: si [[quis]] volentem incipere uti frui prohibuit, one [[who]] is [[about]] to [[enter]] [[upon]] a [[usufruct]], ib. 43, 16, 3, § 14. —<br /> <b>(g)</b> One [[who]] is [[willing]]: non [[refert]] [[quid]] [[sit]] [[quod]] datur, [[nisi]] a volente volenti datur, [[unless]] it is [[both]] [[willingly]] given and [[received]], Sen. Ben. 2, 18, 8: ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt, those [[willing]] to [[follow]], id. Ep. 107, 11.—<br /> <b>(d)</b> One [[who]] consents: tutiusque rati volentibus [[quam]] coactis imperitare, to [[rule]] men [[with]] [[their]] [[consent]], Sall. J. 102, 6: [[quippe]] rempublicam si a volentibus nequeat ab invitis jus expetituram, [[peaceably]] if [[they]] could, [[forcibly]] if [[they]] [[must]], Liv. 3, 40, 4: si [[quis]] aliam rem pro aliā volenti solverit, if one pays [[with]] the [[consent]] of the receiver, Dig. 46, 3, 46: nulla injuria est quae in volentem fiat, ib. 47, 10, 1, § 5.—（ε) One [[who]] does a [[thing]] [[voluntarily]]: pecuniam [[etiam]] a volentibus acceperant, the contributions of [[money]] were [[voluntary]], Vell. 2, 62, 3: [[parce]], [[puer]], stimulis ... (solis equi) Sponte sua properant. Labor est inhibere volentis (i. e. properare), Ov. M. 2, 128.—（ζ) Volens = [[bene]] [[volens]]: [[munificus]] [[nemo]] habebatur [[nisi]] [[pariter]] [[volens]], [[unless]] he [[was]] [[just]] as [[kindly]] disposed, sc. as he [[was]] [[liberal]], Sall. J. 103, 6.—Often referring to a [[previously]] mentioned [[noun]]: hunc [[cape]] consiliis socium et conjunge volentem, and [[unite]] [[with]] him, [[since]] he wishes it, Verg. A. 5, 712; so [[may]] be taken Ov. M. 2, 128 (v. ε).—<br /> <b>b</b> In the neutr. plur. ([[volentia]]) [[rare]], [[always]] [[with]] dat., things [[pleasing]], [[acceptable]]: [[Pompeius]] multis suspitionibus [[volentia]] plebi facturus habebatur, [[that]] he would do [[what]] [[pleased]] the [[common]] [[people]], Sall. H. 4, 31 Dietsch: haec [[atque]] talia plebi [[volentia]] fuere, Tac. A. 15, 36 Draeg. ad loc. al.: iique Muciano [[volentia]] rescripsere, id. H. 3, 52.—Hence, adv.: vŏlenter, [[willingly]], App. M. 6, p. 178, 4.<br /><b>vŏlo</b>: āvi, ātum (<br /><b>I</b> [[part]]. gen. plur. volantūm, Verg. A. 6, 728; Lucr. 2, 1083), 1, v. n. Sanscr. val-, to [[turn]] one's [[self]], etc.; cf.: vŏlucer, vēlox, and vol- in [[velivolus]], to [[fly]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: ex [[alto]] ... [[laeva]] volavit [[avis]], Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 48, 107 (Ann. v. 95 Vahl.): aves, Lucr. 6, 742: accipitres, id. 4, 1010: corvi, id. 2, 822: altam [[supra]] volat [[ardea]] nubem, Verg. G. 1, 364: volat [[ille]] per aëra magnum Remigio alarum, id. A. 1, 300: columbae venere volantes, id. ib. 6, 191; Prop. 2, 30 (3, 28), 30; Juv. 8, 251: apes, Ov. A. A. 1, 96; cf. Plin. 10, 38, 54, § 112: volasse eum (Antonium), non [[iter]] fecisse diceres, Cic. Phil. 10, 5, 11.—Prov.: [[sine]] pennis volare [[haud]] [[facile]] est, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 49.—<br /> <b>2</b> P. a. as subst.: vŏlantes, ĭum, comm., the birds ([[poet]].), Lucr. 2, 1083; Verg. A. 6, 239; 6, 728.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., to [[fly]], i. e. to [[move]] [[swiftly]] [[like]] one [[flying]], to [[fleet]], [[speed]], [[hasten]] [[along]]: i [[sane]] ... [[vola]] curriculo, Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 17; cf.: per [[summa]] [[levis]] volat aequora curru, Verg. A. 5, 819: medios volat [[ecce]] per hostes Vectus equo spumante [[Saces]], id. ib. 12, 650: [[illa]] ([[Argo]]) volat, Ov. H. 6, 66: [[currus]], Verg. G. 3, 181: [[axis]], id. ib. 3, 107: [[nubes]], Lucr. 5, 254: fulmina, id. 2, 213: tempestates, id. 6, 612: [[telum]], id. 1, 971; cf. Sall. J. 60, 2; Verg. A. 9, 698; Liv. 26, 44, 7 al.: litterae Capuam ad Pompeium volare dicebantur, Cic. Att. 2, 19, 3: volat [[aetas]], id. Tusc. 1, 31, 76: [[hora]], Sen. Hippol. 1141: [[fama]], Verg. A. 3, 121: et [[semel]] emissum volat irrevocabile [[verbum]], Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 71.—Poet., [[with]] inf.: ast Erebi [[virgo]] ditem volat aethere Memphim Praecipere et Phariā venientem pellere terrā, Val. Fl. 4, 407.<br /><b>vŏlo</b>: ōnis, m. 1. [[volo]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[volunteer]], [[first]] applied to the slaves [[who]], [[after]] the [[battle]] at Cannæ, were enrolled [[upon]] [[their]] [[own]] expressed [[desire]] to [[serve]] (cf. Liv. 22, 57, 11; Val. Max. 7, 6, 1): [[volones]] dicti sunt milites, qui [[post]] Cannensem cladem [[usque]] ad [[octo]] milia, cum essent servi, [[voluntarie]] se ad militiam obtulere, Paul. Diac. p. 370: [[volones]], [[quia]] [[sponte]] hoc voluerunt, appellati, Macr. S. 1, 11, 30: [[vetus]] [[miles]] tironi, [[liber]] voloni [[sese]] exaequari sineret, Liv. 23, 35, 6; 23, 32, 1; [[Capitol]]. Anton. Phil. 21, 6; Macr. S. 1, 11, 30. | |||
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