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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

  • τούτων τὰ μὲν ἓξ ἐν Θάρσῳ πόλει, τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ ἐν Σωμαρεῶνι λεγομένῃ πόλει ὑπὸ δὲ Ἑλλήνων Σαμαρείᾳ καλουμένῃ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 389:2)
  • θαρσῶ. (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, anapests16)
  • οὐκ οἶδα τὴν σὴν πρᾶξιν, Αἰάντοσ δ’ ὅτι, θυραῖοσ εἴπερ ἐστίν, οὐ θαρσῶ πέρι. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 2:7)

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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