θράσος [ᾰ], εος, τό,
(qrasu/s) ={θάρσος} (which see), courage, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.416, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 394, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 469, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 545 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; θ. πολέμων courage in war, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.63 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θράσει boldly, [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 16.63 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but more frequently ἰσχύος θ. confidence in strength, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 104. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II in bad sense, over-boldness, rashness, insolence, ἐς τοῦτο θράσεος (variant{θάρσεος}) ἀνήκει [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.9.γ᾽,compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 42, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.194, etc.; παμμάχῳ θράσει βρύων 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 169 (Lyric poetry), compare “Pers.” 831; προβᾶσ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατον θράσους 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 853 (Lyric poetry); τόλμαις καὶ φρενῶν θράσει [prev. author] “Aj.” 46; πεπύργωσαι θράσει 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1568; πανουργίᾳ τε καὶ θράσει 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 331, compare 637; θράσει ἀπίστῳ ἐπαιρόμενος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.120; τοῦ θράσους ἐπισχεῖν τινα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 298a; τὸ τὴν τοῦ βελτίονος δόξαν μὴ φοβεῖσθαι διὰ θράσος [prev. author] “Lg.” 701b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀναίδεια καὶ θ. [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.189 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to αἰδώς, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Caelo” 291b26; θράσος μὲν γάρ ἐστιν ἄλογος ὁρμή, θάρσος δὲ ἔλλογος ὁρμή 1st-2nd c.AD: Ammonius Grammaticus “περὶ ὁμοίων καὶ διαφόρων λέξεων” p.71 V.; οἷον πέπονθε τὸ θάρσος πρὸς τὸ θράσος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Eudemia” 1234b12, compare 4th c.AD: Eusebius Myndius Philosophus 56, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Musc.Enc.” 5.] Refs 4th c.BC+] —This distinction holds good in _Attic dialect_ Prose: θάρσος is not found in Comedy texts; θαρσύνω and θρασύνω are used indifferently; θρασέω and θαρσύς are not found; compare θρασύς near the end, θρασύτης.