Lemma 1uolo, uelle, volui
verb
to wish, want, prefer; to be willing, willMorphology
present infinitive activeuel + le · regular
Lewis & Short
vŏlod pers. vīs, orig. veis, P.; 1st pers. volumus, but volĭmus, Speng.; 3d pers. volt, and 2d pers. voltis always in writers — Pres. velim, but sometimes volim, Ritschl; P.; Ritschl, velle, volui ( voliturus; forms, vin for visne, in Plaut. and Ter., also; ), irreg. a. [ var-; ; the strengthened root in; wollen; will], expressing any exercise of volition, and corresponding, in most cases, to the wollen; in mostly rendered, to wish, want, intend, purpose, propose, be willing, consent, mean, will, and, impersonally, it is my will, purpose, intention, plan, policy (: cupio, opto; but volo properly implies a purpose).
With object-infinitive.
With pres.
To wish.
Exire ex urbe priusquam luciscat volo;
Idiomatically: quid arbitramini Rheginos merere velle ut ab iis marmorea illa Venus auferatur? what do you think the Rhegini would take for,
, of things: fabula quae posci vult et spectata reponi, a comedy which wishes ( is meant) to be in demand,
Of the wishes of those that have a right to command, the gods, masters, parents, commanders, , I want, wish, will, am resolved, it is my will.
= in animo habere, to intend, purpose, mean, design; quid enim ad illum qui te captare vult, utrum tacentem te irretiat an loquentem?: volui interdiu eum. occidere; volui, cum ad cenam invitavi, veneno scilicet tollere. — Of things: sed quid eā drachumā facere vis? Ca. Restim volo Mihi emere. qui me faciam pensilem: Ch. Revorsionem ad terram faciunt vesperi. Ni. Aurum hercle auferre voluere: qui (majores nostri) tantā curā Siculos tueri ac retinere voluerunt ut, , whose policy it was to protect, : idem istuc, si in vilitate largiri voluisses, derisum tuum beneficium esset, if you had offered to grant the same thing during low prices,
= studere, conari, to try, endeavor, attempt.
To mean, of actions and expressions. — So, volo dicere, I mean ( I intend to say). — Often with the 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: Py. Quid? bracchium? Ar. Illud dicere volui femur.
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, : quando bene gessi rem, volo hic in fano supplicare, I am going to worship here,
To be about to, on the point of: quom mittere signum Volt, Enn. (Ann. 88 Vahl.).
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, : cum vero (gemitus) nihil imminuat doloris, cur frustra turpes esse volumus? why will (would) we be disgraceful to no purpose?: vis tu homines urbemque feris praeponere silvis? will you prefer,
Sometimes volui = mihi placuit, I resolved, concluded (generally, in this meaning, followed by an infinitive clause, I. B. 4.).
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, : nemo invenitur qui pecuniam suam dividere velit.: (2, 18), 12. — with negatives, to be not willing, not to suffer, not to like, not to allow, refuse: a proximis quisque minime anteiri vult, likes least to be surpassed,
To do something voluntarily or intentionally: volo facere = meā voluntate or sponte facio: si voluit accusare, pietati tribuo. — So, non velle with , to do something unwillingly, with reluctance.
To be of opinion, think, mean, pretend (rare with ; usu. with and ; B. 8.): sed idem Aelius Stoicus esse voluit, orator autem nec studuit um quam, nec fuit.
To like, have no objection to, approve of ( E. 1. ); also II. A.
With pres. understood.
Supplied from a preceding or subsequent clause.
To wish, it is his will, ( 1. a. and b. ): quod diu vivendo multa quae non volt ( videre) videt, Caecil. — Of things.
To choose, be pleased ()
To intend, it is my purpose, ( 1. c. ).
To be willing, to consent, I will ( 1. h. and l. ): tu eum orato. St. Sane volo, yes, I will: (: si vis, II. A. 2, and sis, ). — To do something voluntarily ( 1. ).
With ellipsis of
Volo, with a designation of place, = ire volo.
With other omissions, supplied from context: volo Dolabellae valde desideranti, non reperio quid ( to dedicate some writing to him).
With perfect infinitive active (rare).
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 ( and ).
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, , S. C. de Bacch. 4-13 Wordsworth — 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.
In imitation of official edicts: (vilicus) ne quid emisse velit insciente domino, neu quid domino celasse velit, the overseer must not buy any thing,
In affirmative sentences, implying command (in any mood or tense; mostly ): neminem nota strenui aut ignavi militis notasse volui, I have decided to mark no one, : quia pepercisse vobis volunt, committere vos cur pereatis non patiuntur, because they have decided to spare you,
To represent the will as referring to a completed action.
In optative sentences with vellem or velim, II. B. 5. b., and II. C. 1. b.
In other sentences ( and ): 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)
With and
To wish (v. A. 1. a.).
With a different subject: hoc volo scire te: Perditus sum miser, I wish you to know, — With
With the same subject.
With
With
Of the will of superiors, gods, ( A. 1. b. ), I want, it is my will — in the historians: quid fieri vellet (velit), after a verbum imperandi or declarandi, he gave his orders, explained his will — Frequently majores voluerunt, it was the will of our ancestors, referring to ancient customs and institutions: majores vestri ne vos quidem temere coire voluerunt — Of testamentary dispositions: cum Titius, heres meus, mortuus erit, volo hereditatem meam ad P. Mevium pertinere, Gai. Except in the institution of the first heir: at illa (institutio) non est comprobata: Titum heredem esse volo, Gai.
Of the intention of a writer, , to want, to mean, intend.
To resolve, §: (7), 13. — Hence.
To order, command: erus meus tibi me salutem multam voluit dicere, has ordered me, : (for velitis jubeatis with inf.-clause, II. B. 5. d.).
To consent, allow ( A. 1. I.). — negatively = not to let, not to suffer.
To be of opinion that something should be, to require, demand: eos exercitus quos contra se multos jam annos aluerint velle dimitti, he demanded the disbanding of,
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.
To imagine, consider.
To be of opinion, to hold.
To say, assert — With
To pretend, with , both subjects denoting the same person: ( A. 1. ). To mean, with — With pres. — Rarely in the first pers., implying that the opinion is open to discussion.
With things as subjects.
Things : fortuna Q. Metellum. nasci in urbe terrarum principe voluit, fate ordained that, : nihil rerum ipsa natura voluit magnum effici cito, it is the law of nature that,
Of laws, to provide: (, b., ).
With , to represent a state or result wished for.
The 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, : Corinthum patres vestri, totius Graeciae lumen, exstinctum esse voluerunt, it was their will that Corinth should be (and remain) destroyed: for velle redundant in this construction, II. A. 2. 3. infra. — With
With ellips. of esse ( ): perdis me tuis dictis. Cu. Imo, servo et servatum volo, and mean that you should remain saved: id nunc res indicium haeo facit, quo pacto factum volueris, this shows now why you wished this to be done, (, II. B. 1, and II. B. 3. b. ): domesticā curā te levatum volo, I wish to see you relieved, ; 22, 7, 4: (so with velle redundant, II. A. 1. d., and II. A. 3. ). — Both subjects denoting the same person. — , with : alicui consultum velle, to take care for or advocate somebody's interests: C, 10; with dep. , used passively.
With predic. , without copula.
The subjects being different (mostly aliquem salvum velle).
Both subjects denoting the same person (virtually = object infinitive): ut iste qui se vult dicacem et mehercule est, Appius, who means to be witty,
With an inf.-clause understood.
Velle, to wish: utinam hinc abierit in malam crucem! Ad. Ita nos velle aequom est (ita = eum abire, )
Referring to the will of superiors, : jamne abeo? St. Volo (sc. te abire), so I will.
To mean, intend ( B. 3.).
To require, demand (v B. 7.). — To be of opinion, will have ( B. 8.). — With ellips. of predic. (v. A. 2. b.): cras de reliquiis nos volo ( cenare), it is my intention that we dine,
With ut, ne, or ut ne.
With ut.
To wish: hoc prius volo meam rem agere. Th. Quid id est? Ph. Ut mihi hanc despondeas: quid vis, nisi ut maneat Phanium?. — Both subjects denoting the same person: volueram, inquit, ut quam plurimum tecum essem, Brut.
It is the will of, to want, ordain ( B. 2.): numquid me vis? Le. Ut valeas: numquid vis? Ps. Dormitum ut abeas.
To intend, it is the purpose, aim, , the two subjects being the same.
With other verbs.
With ne.
With ut ne: quid nunc tibi vis? Mi. Ut quae te cupit, eam ne spernas.
With subjunct. of dependent verb (mostly ; and with velim and vellem; but in Cic. mostly epistolary and colloquial).
To wish: dub.; 3, 3, 3: visne igitur descendatur ad Lirim? Fragm.
To be of opinion that something should be, demand, require ( B. 7.): volo enim se efferat in adulescentiā fecunditas, I like to see,
With subj.-clause understood.
With object nouns,
With of a thing.
With a noun, to want, wish for, like to have; nullam ego rem umquam in vitā meā Volui quin tu in eā re mihi advorsatrix fueris, I never had any wish in my life, : (dixit) velle Hispaniam, he wanted Spain, as a province: a, 3; ( II. C. 4. ): (2, 18), 12.
Neutr. adjj., denoting things, substantively used: utrum vis opta, dum licet. La. Neutrum volo.
With neutr. demonstr. expressed or understood, to want, intend, aim at, like, will. — With demonstr. in place of inf.-clause.
With neutr. of interrog. : quid nunc vis? Am. Sceleste, at etiam quid velim, id tu me rogas? what do you want now?: heus tu! Si. Quid vis? — Sometimes quid vult = quid sibi vult ( 4. b.), to mean, signify. — Of things as subjects.
With rel. — Idiomatically: quod volo = quod demonstrare volo, what I intend to prove. — With indef. relations.
With indef. pronn.
Si quid vis, if you want any thing: illo praesente mecum agito si quid voles: Py. Adeat si quid volt. Pa. Si quid vis, adi, mulier.
Nisi quid vis, unless you wish to give some order, to make some remark,
Numquid vis or ecquid vis? have you any orders to give? a formula used by inferiors before leaving their superiors.
With of the person: aliquem velle.
To want somebody, in order to see him, to speak with him ( and ). — With paucis verbis or paucis, for a few words (moments).
To love, like somebody, to be fond of somebody (anteclass. and ): nolo virum, facili redimit qui sanguine famam: hunc volo, laudari qui sine morte potest, I like the one who,
To wish to have.
With two accusatives, of the person and the thing: aliquem aliquid velle, to want something of somebody : aliquem aliquid rogare; mostly ; also, I want to speak with somebody ( 2. a. ).
With of thing and of the person: aliquid alicui velle, to wish something to somebody = cupio aliquid alicui; cupio. — , in the phrase quid vis (vult) with reflex. of interest, what do you want for yourself?
Quid tibi vis = quid vis, the being redundant (rare). — With quisque.
What do you mean? what do you drive at? what is your scope, object, drift (rare in writers; Don. ad, declares it an archaism).
In 1st pers. (rare).
In 2d pers.: sed quid nunc tibi vis? what do you want to come at (i.e. by your preamble)?: quid tu tibi vis? Ego non tangam meam? what do you mean? what is your purpose?: Ph. Fabulae! Ch. Quid vis tibi?; in 2d pers.
In 3d pers.: volt, non volt dare Galla mihi, nec dicere possum quod volt et non volt, quid sibi Galla velit, Mart: 3, 90, 2.
of things as subjects, what means, what signifies? quid volt sibi, Syre, haec oratio?, §.
Bene or male alicui velle, to wish one well or ill, to like or dislike one ( and ): Ph. Bene volt tibi. St. Nequam est illud verbum bene volt, nisi qui bene facit; so, melius or optime alicui velle, to like one better or best. — And bene velle = velle: bene volueris in precatione augurali Messalla augur ait, significare volueris, Fest. bene sponsis, p. 351.
With : alicujus causā velle, to like one for his own sake, personally, a Ciceronian phrase, probably inst. of omnia alicujus causā velle; to wish every thing (i.e. good) in somebody's behalf.
With omnia expressed: etsi mihi videor intellexisse cum tecum de re M. Annaeii locutus sum, te ipsius causā vehementer omnia velle, tamen, ut non dubitem quin magnus cumulus accedat commenda tionis meae.
Imp. Pomp. ( C. 1. b. ), where the phrase has its literal meaning; also: alicujus causā (omnia) cupere; cupio.
With and subjunct. per ecthesin (): nunc ego illum meum virum veniat velim by mixture of constructions: meum virum velim; ( E. 1. d. ).
Velle used absolutely, variously rendered to will, have a will, wish, consent, assent: novi ingenium mulierum: Nolunt ubi velis, ubi nolis cupiunt ultro, they will not where you will, 2: (3, 1), 6. — velle substantively: inest enim velle in carendo, the word carere implies the notion of a wish, ext. 5.
Redundant, when the will to do is identified with the act itself.
In imperative sentences.
In independent sentences introduced by noli velle, where noli has lost the idea of volition: qui timor bonis omnibus injectus sit. nolite a me commoneri velle, do not wish, expect, to be reminded by me, : nolite hunc illi acerbum nuntium velle perferri, let it not be your decision that, : cujus auspicia pro vobis experti nolite adversus vos velle experiri, do not desire,
Ne velis or ne velit fecisse = ne feceris, or ne facito ( I. A. 3. a. ). — ne velis with pres.
In affirmative imperative sentences velim esse = esto; and in 3d pers.
In clauses dependent on verbs of commanding and wishing: precor quaesoque ne ante oculos patris facere et pati omnia infanda velis (= facias et patiaris).: nos contra (oravimus). ne vertere secum Cuncta pater fatoque urguenti incumbere vellet. — With ( I. B. 9. b. ). — after utinam or ut: ( also I. B. 9. b., and I. B. 2. ).
In conditional clauses, si facere velim = si faciam, often rendered by the potential or future auxiliaries would or will; cum olera Diogeni lavanti Aristippus dixisset: si Dionysium adulare velles, ista non esses, ext. 4, ext. 3 — With
In declarative sentences.
Volo in 1st pers. with or volo oratum esse or oratum = oro; so, factum volo = faciam: serva tibi sodalem, et mihi filium. Mne. Factum volo, I will: pariter nunc opera me adjuves ac, Nau. Factum volo — In 3d pers.
With pres.
With
In other connections, when the will or purpose is made more prominent than the action, §: quin etiam senatus gratias ei agentem quod redire voluisset ante portas eduxit (= quod redisset), ext. 2.
Velim, as potential subjunctive (mostly in 1st pers. , as subjunctive of modest statement), = volo, I wish, I should like.
With verb in the second person.
With pres. , so most frequently in Cic.
As a modest imperative of the dependent verb: velim facias = fac, I wish you would do it, please do it; : velim, inquit, hoc mihi probes,
Expressing a wish without a command ( vellem).
With infinitive clause.
With the force of a modest imperative: (may be a dependent subjunctive).
As a mere wish. — With — With , ( II. A. 3. a. ).
With ut (rare).
With ne (rare), ( I. C. 2. ).
With dependent verb in the third person, expressing a wish.
With pres. — With final clause; ( I. C. 2. ). — With ellips. of pres.
With (a wish referring to the past).
With inf.-clause: di me perdant! Me. Quodcunque optes, velim tibi contingere: idque primum ita esse velim. — With ( I. B. 9. b., ). — With inf.-clause understood.
With verb in the first person.
With pres. (so most ). — With , ( II. A. 3. c.).
With and — with
With pres.: B. and K. ex Müll. (Lachm., Hoffm. posse; al. possem).
Velim in the principal sentence of conditional clauses, I would, I should be willing.
The other persons of velim in potential use (rare).
Velis.
Imperatively = cupito.
Declaratively with indef. : quom inopia'st, cupias; quando ejus copia'st, tum non velis, then you (i.e. people, they) do not want it.
Redundant, as a form of the imperative of the dependent verb, ( I. A. 3. a. )
Velit.
Modestly for vult: nemo enim minui velit id in quo maximus fuit, would like that to be diminished in which, ; , and ( I. E. 1. c. ). — So, , instead of vellet with
= imperative of third person. — Redundantly, giving to the dependent verb the force of an imperative, prooem. 12 ( II. A. 1. c. ; also I. A. 3. a. ).
Velimus.
In the optative sense of velim.
With imperative sense (= let us, we should, ), ( I. A. 2. d. ).
Velitis = velim velitis ( jubeatis, jubete). — 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. — And parodied by Cic. — in oblique discourse, vellent juberent.
Velint, optative and redundant, ( II. A. 1. d.)
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. It is not used with imperative force — Often quam vellem, how I wish, I wish very much; and in the same sense: nimium vellem, infra.
With verb in first person.
With pres., I wish, would like, referring to present or future actions. — With cuperem and optarem — Rarely, I should have liked. — And in conditional sense.
With inf.-clause, the predicate being a ( I. B. 9. b., ).
With (rare).
The subject of the dependent verb in the second person.
With (the regular construction).
With pluperf., I wish you had.
With ne and pluperf.
With ellipsis of verb: vera cantas, vana vellem ( cantares).
With verb in third person.
With (the regular construction).
With pluperf.
With inf.-clause.
With pres., I wish he were.
With or , I wish he had, had been.
With ut; ( I. C. 1. a. ).
With of a neuter pronoun or of a noun: tris eos libros maxime nunc vellem: apti essent ad id quod cogito, I would like to have ( I. E. 1. a.).
In the other persons of vellem (mostly ).
Velles.
In optative sentences redundant, ( II. A. 1. d.).
Of an indefinite subject.
Vellet.
In the potential sense of vellem: vellet abesse quidem.
Conditionally.
Vellent.
In the potential sense of vellem.
Conditionally: nec superi vellent hoc licuisse sibi, would wish, if in this situation.
Volam and voluero.
: 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.
Volam in principal sentences.
= future, I shall wish, : cum omnia habueris, tunc habere et sapientiam voles? will you also wish to have wisdom when?
Denoting present probability: et scilicet jam me hoc voles patrem exorare, ut, , you doubtless wish me,
In clauses dependent on predicates implying a future, generally rendered by an English present; si di volent, the gods permitting, August. — So, voluero.
Si vis, parenthetically.
If you please ( sis, ).
If you wish, choose, insist upon it.
Quam, with any person of the pres. or , or or future, = quamvis, in a concessive sense, virtually, however, however much.
3d pers.
1st pers.
2d pers. : exspectate facinus quam vultis improbum, vincam tamen, , expect a crime, however wicked (ever so wicked), , § 102.
3d pers.
Volo = malo, to prefer, with a comparative clause (rare).
With magis and maxime.
Magis velle: ut tu illam salvam magis velles quam ego, you wish more than I,
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); so, quemadmodum ego maxime vellem.
In disjunctive co - ordination.
With sive. sive.
Without connectives.
Vis tu. vis.
Velim nolim.
Interrogatively, = utrum velim nec ne.
= seu velim seu nolim: and P. a.: vŏlens, entis.
As a proper, retaining the meaning and construction of velle, with the force of a relative or adverbial clause.
Agreeing with some member of the sentence and in prose: decemviri, minuere volentes hujuscemodi violentiam. putaverunt, , intending (who intended) to diminish such a violence,
(not ); Thrasippo supplicium a se voluntariā morte exigere volente, while he was about to inflict punishment on himself, , ext. 2: scire volentibus immortalibus dis an Romana virtus imperium orbis mereretur, it being the will of the gods to know, , (1, 7, 3): qui sciente aut volente eo ad quem res pertinet, possessionem nanciscitur, with the knowledge and consent of the person who,
As , willing, voluntary, and hence, favorably disposed ( invitus).
Attributively.
In the phrase cum dis volentibus, with the willing or favoring gods, with the will, permission, or favor of the gods: dono ducite doque volentibu' cum magnis dis, Enn. (Ann. 208 Vahl.): (142). — And without cum,
Volenti animo.
= cupide, eagerly.
On purpose, intentionally.
Predicatively.
Agreeing with the subject-nom. or subject -
Voluntarily, willingly, gladly (): ipsa autem macie tenuant armenta volentes (on purpose). — And referring to subjects denoting things: quos rami fructus, quos ipsa volentia rura Sponte tulere suā, carpsit (spontaneously and willingly).
Favorably; with propitius, favorably and kindly, referring to the gods — Parodied by Plautus. — : Weissenb. ad loc.
Agreeing with other terms of the sentence (rare): volenti consuli causa in Pamphyliam devertendi oblata est, a welcome cause was offered to the consul,
In the phrase aliquid mihi volenti est or putatur, , something is welcome, acceptable to me, pleases me = volens habeo or accipio aliquid; the , and, mihi aliquid cupienti est; cupio: Dietsch. — with subject - : ceterisque remanere et in verba Vespasiani adigi volentibus fuit, to the rest it was acceptable to remain, — With subject-inf. understood; 6, 6
As (mostly ).
vŏlens, entis, , = is qui vult, in the different meanings, and often with the construction of the verb.
One who wishes.
One who intends, is about.
One who is willing.
One who consents. — One who does a thing voluntarily. — Volens = bene volens: munificus nemo habebatur nisi pariter volens, unless he was just as kindly disposed, sc. as he was liberal. — Often referring to a previously mentioned noun; may be taken ( ).
In the neutr. (volentia) rare, always with , things pleasing, acceptable: Dietsch: Draeg. ad loc. al. — Hence, : vŏlenter, willingly.
volantūm, to fly.
: ex alto. laeva volavit avis, Enn. (Ann. 95 Vahl.) — Prov.
P. a. as : vŏlantes, ĭum, comm., the birds ().
, to fly, to move swiftly like one flying, to fleet, speed, hasten along — , with
a volunteer, first applied to the slaves who, after the battle at Cannæ, were enrolled upon their own expressed desire to serve.