προβουλεύω
Non-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
προβουλεύω
προβουλεύσω
Structure:
προ
(Prefix)
+
βουλεύ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to contrive or concert measures before, to debate or consider first
- to frame or pass a probou/leuma, to propose decrees, it has been decreed that
- to award by a decree of this kind
- to have the chief voice in the senate and in passing decrees
- to deliberate for, provide for
Conjugation
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- ἐγὼ δὲ ‐ ἀεὶ γάρ τι προβουλεύω ἐσ τὸ κοινὸν καὶ σκοπῶ ὅπωσ αὐξηθήσεται μὲν τὰ τῶν θεῶν, ἐπιδώσει δὲ καὶ τἆλλα πάντα ἐσ κόσμον καὶ κάλλοσ ‐ ἐνενόησα ὡσ ἄμεινον εἰή ὀλίγον ὅσον τοῦ πηλοῦ λαβόντα ζῷά τινα συστήσασθαι καὶ ἀναπλάσαι τὰσ μορφὰσ μὲν ἡμῖν αὐτοῖσ προσεοικότα· (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 12:3)
- πρῶτον μέν, ὁπότ’ εἴποι τισ ἐν τἠκκλησίᾳ, ὦ Δῆμ’ ἐραστήσ εἰμι σὸσ φιλῶ τέ σε καὶ κήδομαί σου καὶ προβουλεύω μόνοσ, τούτοισ ὁπότε χρήσαιτό τισ προοιμίοισ, ἀνωρτάλιζεσ κἀκερουτίασ. (Aristotle, Episode8)
- ἐκ τούτου τῷ μὲν Ἄγιδι τὸ πλῆθοσ ἐπηκολούθησεν, οἱ δὲ πλούσιοι τόν τε Λεωνίδαν παρεκάλουν μὴ σφᾶσ προέσθαι, καὶ τοὺσ γέροντασ, οἷσ τὸ κράτοσ ἦν ἐν τῷ προβουλεύειν, δεόμενοι καὶ πείθοντεσ ἴσχυσαν, ὅσον ἑνὶ πλείονασ γενέσθαι τοὺσ ἀποψηφισαμένουσ τὴν ῥήτραν. (Plutarch, Agis, chapter 11 1:1)
- προβουλεύει δ’ εἰσ τὸν δῆμον, καὶ οὐκ ἔξεστιν οὐδὲν ἀπροβούλευτον οὐδ’ ὅ τι ἂν μὴ προγράψωσιν οἱ πρυτάνεισ ψηφίσασθαι τῷ δήμῳ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 45 4:2)
- συστησάμενοσ δὲ τὴν ἐν Ἀρείῳ πάγῳ βουλὴν ἐκ τῶν κατ’ ἐνιαυτὸν ἀρχόντων, ἧσ διὰ τὸ ἄρξαι καὶ αὐτὸσ μετεῖχεν, ἔτι δ’ ὁρῶν τὸν δῆμον οἰδοῦντα καὶ θρασυνόμενον τῇ τῶν χρεῶν ἀφέσει, δευτέραν προσκατένειμε βουλήν, ἀπὸ φυλῆσ ἑκάστησ, τεττάρων οὐσῶν, ἑκατὸν ἄνδρασ ἐπιλεξάμενοσ, οὓσ προβουλεύειν ἔταξε τοῦ δήμου καὶ μηδὲν ἐᾶν ἀπροβούλευτον εἰσ ἐκκλησίαν εἰσφέρεσθαι. (Plutarch, , chapter 19 1:1)
Synonyms
-
to deliberate for
Derived
- βουλεύω (to take counsel, deliberate, concert measures)
- ἐπιβουλεύω (to plan or contrive against, to plot against, lay snares for)
- μεταβουλεύω (to alter one's plans, change one's mind, to change one's mind and not)
- προεπιβουλεύω (to plot against, beforehand, to be the object of such plots)
- συμβουλεύω (to advise, counsel, to advise)
- συνεπιβουλεύω (to join in plotting against)
