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