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τάρβ-ος , εος, τό,
A.alarm, terror, Il.24.152, S.OT296, etc.; περίφοβόν μ᾽ ἔχει τ. A.Supp.736 (lyr.); ἐν χρόνῳ ἀποφθίνει τὸ τ. Id.Ag.858; “ἀμφὶ τάρβει” Id.Ch.547; ζωπυροῦσι τ. folld. by acc. of persons feared (cf. “δέος” 1), Id.Th.290 (lyr.).
2. awe, reverence, τινος for one, Id.Pers.696 (lyr.).
II. an object of alarm, a fear or alarm, ἔχεις τι θάρσος τοῦδε τοῦ τάρβους πέρι; S.El.412; “πόλει τάρβος ἦσθα” E.Ba.1310.--Poet. word, rare in Prose, as Aret. SD1.6, Plu.2.666b. (Cf. Skt. tarjati 'threaten', Lat. torvus.）
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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