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[112] βούλομαι, prefer, as in 117, 11.319, 23.594, and often; and with “πολύ,” 17.331. This sense is still more emphatically brought out in the following compound, “προβέβουλα” (the perf. is “ἅπ. λεγ”. in Greek outside the Anthology). It is in this sense of choice that “βούλομαι” differs from “ἐθέλω”, not in any subtle difference as to the efficacy of the wish. αὐτήν, emphatic, as opposed to the ransom.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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