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θάρσος , Att. θάρρος , Aeol. θέρσος (q.v.), εος, τό, (θρασύς)
A.courage, Il.6.126; θ. τινός courage to do a thing, A.Ch.91, S.OC48: c. gen., courage against . . , “πολεμίων” Pl.Lg.647b; “πρὸς τοὺς πολεμίους” X.Cyr. 4.2.15; θ. ἴσχε take courage! S.Ph.807; “θ. ἔχειν περί τινος” Id.El.412; “φρεσὶ θ. ἀέξειν” Hes.Sc.96; “αἴρειν πρός τι” E.IA1598; “λαβεῖν” Act.Ap. 28.15; but “θ. ἔλαβέ τινας” Th.2.92; “θ. ἐμπνέειν” Od.9.381; “ἐνὶ φρεσὶ θεῖναι” 3.76; τῷ δ᾽ ἐνὶ θυμῷ θῆκε . . θ. 1.321; “ἐν κραδίῃ βάλλειν” Il.21.547; παρασχεῖν, ἐμποιεῖν τινι, Th.6.68, X.An.6.5.17; θ. ἐγγίγνεται, ἐμπίπτει τινί, Id.Cyr.4.2.15, HG7.1.31; “ἐμφύσεται” Id.Cyr.5.2.32; “οὔτ᾽ ἐλπίδος γὰρ οὔτε του δόξης ὁρῶ θ. παρ᾽ ἡμῖν ὡς . . ” E.Hec.371: pl., “φόβοι καὶ θάρρη” Arist.EN1107a33, cf. Pl.Prt.360b.
2. that which gives courage, “ὀλολυγμόν . . , θάρσος φίλοις” A.Th.270, cf. 184: pl., θάρση grounds of confidence, E.IT1281 (lyr.).
II. rarely in bad sense, = θράσος, audacity, “θάρσος ἄητον ἔχουσα” Il.21.395; μυίης θάρσος ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ἐνῆκεν the reckless persistence of a fly, 17.570.—On the diff. of θάρσος and θράσος, v. θράσος.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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