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θάρσος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θάρσος θάρση θάρσον

Structure: θαρς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qrasu/s

Sense

  1. courage, boldness, courage to do
  2. that which gives courage, grounds of confidence
  3. audacity

Examples

  • ἡ δὲ πολιορκοῦσα τὴν Γαβαθώνην στρατιὰ πυθομένη τὰ περὶ τὸν βασιλέα καὶ ὅτι Ζαμβρίασ ἀποκτείνασ αὐτὸν ἔχει τὴν βασιλείαν καὶ αὐτὴ τὸν ἡγούμενον αὐτῆσ Ἀμαρῖνον ἀπέδειξε βασιλέα, ὃσ ἀπὸ τῆσ Γαβαθώνησ ἀναστήσασ τὸν στρατὸν εἰσ Θαρσὴν παραγίνεται τὸ βασίλειον καὶ προσβαλὼν τῇ πόλει κατὰ κράτοσ αἱρεῖ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 387:1)

Synonyms

  1. courage

  2. audacity

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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