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θαρσαλέος

tharsaleos

daring, confident, confidence

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Where it lives

  • Laches 12 · 15.64/10k
  • Protagoras 17 · 9.57/10k
  • Machabaeourum III 2 · 3.98/10k
  • Machabaeorum IV 2 · 2.59/10k
  • Rhetoric 8 · 1.86/10k
  • Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
  • Hiero 1 · 1.68/10k
  • Nicomachean Ethics 7 · 1.24/10k
  • Apology 1 · 1.14/10k
  • Discourses 8 · 1.08/10k
  • Anabasis 6 · 1.07/10k
  • Odyssey 9 · 1.04/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

daring, confident, confidence, of good courage

daring, πολεμιστής Il. 21.589, etc.; ἦτορ 19.169; φωνά Pi. N. 9.49; ἐλπίδες θ. confident, A. Pr. 536 (lyr.): c. inf., ἀπὸ τῶν ἵππων πολεμεῖν θαρρ. Pl. Prt. 350a; θ. περί τι Arist. Rh. 1383a15: Comp. -ώτερος Id. PA 667a16, Pl. Prt. l.c.; τὸ θαρσαλέον confidence, ἐν τῷ θαρσαλέῳ εἶναι Th. 2.51, cf. Lys. 21.25: so in Adv., θαρραλέως ἔχειν to be of good courage, πρὸς θάνατον Pl. Ap. 34e; πρὸς τοὺς πολεμίους X. An. 2.6.14: Comp. -ώτερον Isoc. Ep. 7.3.

2 overbold, audacious

in bad sense, overbold, audacious, θ. καὶ ἀναιδής Od. 17.449; θαρσαλέη, κύον ἀδεές 19.91; θ. καὶ θρασεῖς Pl. Lg. 649c. Adv., ψευδῆ λέγειν θαρραλέως Is. 10.1.

II that which may be ventured on

that which may be ventured on, τὰ θ., opp. τὰ δεινά, Pl. Prt. 359c, La. 195c, al.; τἀληθῆ . . λέγειν ἀσφαλὲς καὶ θ. Id. R. 450e.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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