T o l m a ô
undertake, take heart either to do or bear anything terrible or difficult:
I. 1. - mostly abs., dare, endure, submit (v. *tlaô),
eni
phresi thumos etolma Hom.
Il. 10.232; su d' (sc. kradiê) etolmas Hom.
Od. 20.20; oude hoi hippoi tolmôn Hom.
Il. 12.51
I. 2. - c. acc. rei, endure, undergo, tolmaô chrê
ta didousi theoi Thgn.591, cf. Eur.
Hec. 333, Plat.
Laws 872e.
II. 1. - c. inf., to have the courage, hardihood, effrontery, cruelty,
or the grace, patience, to do a thing in spite of any natural feeling,
dare, or bring oneself, to do, ei. tolmêseis Dios anta . . enchos
aeiraiHom.
Il. 8.424, cf. au=Hom.
Il. 13.395, au=Hom.
Il. 17.68, Hom.
Od. 9.332.
II. 2. - sts. c. part., etolma . . ballomenos he submitted to be
struck, Hom.
Od. 24.162.
II. 3. - c. acc., polemon tolmêsanta undertaking, venturing
on it, Hom.
Od. 8.519.
II. 4. - so in Act., tetolmêkuiai [lexeis] daring expressions,
Phld.Rh.1.341S.
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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek: tolmaô
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