θρᾰσύς, εῖα, ύ,
feminine θρασέα, for the sake of meter, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 20 (assuming variant)] Refs 4th c.BC+]:— bold, chiefly of persons, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.89, etc.; also θ. πόλεμος 6.254, 10.28, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.146; θρασειάων ἀπὸ χειρῶν 5.434, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.662, +others; θ. καρδία 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.44; πούς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 330 (Lyric poetry); ἐν τῷ ἔργῳ ἔργῳ θρασύς 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.49 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἡ ἐλπὶς θρασεῖα τοῦ μέλλοντος full of confidence, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.77; θρασὺς τὸ ἦθος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1315a11. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 more frequently in bad sense, over-bold, rash, σὺν δ᾽ ὁ θ. εἵπετ᾽ Ὀδυσσεύς [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.436 (Scholia προπετής); Γοργόνες 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 12.7 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; audacious, arrogant, insolent, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 180 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 445 (_anapaest meter_), etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ἄρης.. πρὸς ἀλλήλους θ., of civil war, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 863 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; γλώσσῃ θ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1142; ἐν τοῖς λόγοις [prev. author] “Ph.” 1307; ἐπὶ τῶν λόγων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Prooemia” 32 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀνομίᾳ θ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 275 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πονηρὸς εἶ καὶ θ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 181; θρασεῖς καὶ ἄδικοι καὶ ὑβρισταί 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 630b; ἀλαζὼν ὁ θ. καὶ προσποιητικὸς ἀνδρείας 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1115b29; [ὅμοιόν τι ἔχει] ὁ θ. τῷ θαρραλέῳ [prev. work] 1151b7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ μὴ θ. modesty, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 197 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: comparative -ύτερος[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 184b, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” p.61 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] O.: superlative -ύτατος[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.133, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]