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βουλ-ευτικός , ή, όν,
A.of or for the council, β. ὅρκος oath taken by the councillors, X.Mem.1.1.18; νόμοι ap.D.24.20; “β. τιμαί” CIG1716 (Delph.); ἀρχὴ β. right to sit in the βουλή, Arist.Pol.1275b19; of the Roman Senate, τίμημα, ἐσθής, D.C.54.17, 40.46; -κά, τά, funds at the disposal of a council, POxy.1416.3 (iii A. D.).
2. able to advise or deliberate, ὁ β., opp. ὁ πολεμικός, Pl.R.434b, cf. 441a, Arist.EN1140a31, 1152a19; τὸ β. the deliberative faculty, Id.Pol.1260a12.
II. Subst., -κόν, τό, in the Athen. theatre, seats reserved for the Council, Ar.Av.794, Hsch.
2. the deliberative and judicial element in the state, Arist.Pol.1329a31; at Rome, senatorial order, Plu.Rom.13.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 794
    • Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 20
    • Plato, Republic, 434b
    • Plato, Republic, 441a
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 1.1.18
    • Plutarch, Romulus, 13
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 40.46
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 54.17
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