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θράσος

thrasos · τό

courage, courage, boldly

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Where it lives

  • Virtues and Vices 1 · 6.74/10k
  • Suppliant Maidens 3 · 6.22/10k
  • Machabaeourum III 2 · 3.98/10k
  • Agamemnon 3 · 3.7/10k
  • Electra 2 · 2.3/10k
  • Orestes 2 · 2.04/10k
  • Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
  • Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
  • Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
  • Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
  • Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
  • Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

courage, courage, boldly, confidence

= θάρσος (q.v.), courage, Il. 14.416, A. Pers. 394, E. Med. 469, Ar. Lys. 545 (lyr.); θ. πολέμων courage in war, Pi. P. 2.63; θράσει boldly, B. 16.63; but more freq. ἰσχύος θ. confidence in strength, S. Ph. 104.

II over-boldness, rashness, insolence

in bad sense, over-boldness, rashness, insolence, ἐς τοῦτο θράσεος (v.l. θάρσεος) ἀνήκει Hdt. 7.9.γʹ, cf. A. Pr. 42, D. 21.194, etc.; παμμάχῳ θράσει βρύων A. Ag. 169 (lyr.), cf. Pers. 831; προβᾶσʼ ἐπʼ ἔσχατον θράσους S. Ant. 853 (lyr.); τόλμαις καὶ φρενῶν θράσει Id. Aj. 46; πεπύργωσαι θράσει E. Or. 1568; πανουργίᾳ τε καὶ θράσει Ar. Eq. 331, cf. 637; θράσει ἀπίστῳ ἐπαιρόμενος Th. 1.120; τοῦ θράσους ἐπισχεῖν τινα Pl. Hp.Ma. 298a; τὸ τὴν τοῦ βελτίονος δόξαν μὴ φοβεῖσθαι διὰ θράσος Id. Lg. 701b; ἀνα

In the wild

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Where it came from

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. θράσος (scan pp. 599-600; entry #2591).
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. θράσος (scan p. 453; entry #3195).

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