θάρσος,
Attic dialect θάρρος, Aeolic dialect θέρσος (which see), εος, τό, (θρασύς) courage, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.126 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; θ. τινός courage to do a thing, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 91, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 48 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with genitive, courage against.. , πολεμίων [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 647b; πρὸς τοὺς πολεμίους 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θ. ἴσχε take courage! [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 807; θ. ἔχειν περί τινος [prev. author] “El.” 412; φρεσὶ θ. ἀέξειν 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 96; αἴρειν πρός τι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1598; λαβεῖν NT.Act.28.15; but θ. ἔλαβέ τινας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.92; θ. ἐμπνέειν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.381; ἐνὶ φρεσὶ θεῖναι 3.76 ] NT+8th c.BC+]; τῷ δ᾽ ἐνὶ θυμῷ θῆκε.. θ[[. 1.321; ἐν κραδίῃ βάλλειν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.547 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; παρασχεῖν, ἐμποιεῖν τινι, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.68, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.5.17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θ. ἐγγίγνεται, ἐμπίπτει τινί, [[ [prev. author] “Cyr.” 4.2.15, “HG” 7.1.31; ἐμφύσεται [prev. author] “Cyr.” 5.2.32; οὔτ᾽ ἐλπίδος γὰρ οὔτε του δόξης ὁρῶ θ. παρ᾽ ἡμῖν ὡς.. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 371: _plural_, φόβοι καὶ θάρρη 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1107a33, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 360b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 that which gives courage, ὀλολυγμόν.., θάρσος φίλοις [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 270, compare 184: _plural_, θάρση] Refs 4th c.BC+] grounds of confidence, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1281 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]