1. βούλησις · boulēsis — Chantraine
1) βούλησις « désir, volonté, testament» (Th, PI, Arist., pap.); — [Chantraine, s.v. βούλησις, p. 203]
The corpus record
βούλ-ησις
boulesis
1) βούλησις « désir, volonté, testament» (Th, PI, Arist
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Where it lives
- Against Aristogeiton 2 1 · 5.95/10k
- Against Leochares 2 · 4.87/10k
- Eudemian Ethics 12 · 4.6/10k
- Against Aristogeiton 1 3 · 4.48/10k
- Third Olynthiac 1 · 4.25/10k
- Charmides 2 · 2.41/10k
- Nicomachean Ethics 12 · 2.13/10k
- Enchiridion 1 · 2.02/10k
- Enneads 42 · 1.98/10k
- Cratylus 3 · 1.68/10k
- Laws 16 · 1.55/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
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What it meant
2. βούλ-ησις · boul-ēsis — LSJ
willing, purpose, wish, desire, purpose
willing, Arist. de An. 433a43; β. ἀγαθοῦ ὄρεξις Id. Top. 146b5, cf. EN 1111b19; τῶν ἀδυνάτων, τοῦ τέλους, ib. 1111b22, 1113a15; purpose, πράσσειν β. E. HF 1305; wish, desire, Th. 3.39, Pl. Grg. 509d, etc.; βούλησιν ἐλπίζει entertains a hope and purpose, Th. 6.78; κατὰ τὴν β. Pl. Cra. 420d, al.; παρὰ τὴν β. ibid., Arist. EN 1136b24: pl., Pl. Lg. 688b, Arist. Rh. 1378b18; of the gods, Polystr. p.10 W.
II purpose, meaning, signification
purpose or meaning of a poem, Pl. Prt. 344b; signification of a word, Id. Cra. 421b.
III will, testament
will, testament, β. ἔγγραφος PLips. 33 ii 10 (iv A. D.).
In the wild
- βούλησιν · boulēsin Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..9 (DIORISIS sentence 121)
- βουλήσεως · boulēseōs Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 2
- βούλησιν · boulēsin Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 2
- βούλησιν · boulēsin Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 2
- βούλησις · boulēsis Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 2
- βούλησις · boulēsis Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 2
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