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εὔτολμ-ος , ον,
A.brave-spirited, courageous, “εὔ. ψυχῆς λῆμα” Simon.140; “ἀπ᾽ εὐ. φρενός” A.Ag.1302; of men, v.l. in X.An.1.7.4, etc.: Comp., Ph.2.122: Sup., ib.68, D.H.6.14, etc.: usu. in good sense, “εὔ. εἶναι κρῖνε, τολμηρὸς δὲ μή” Men.Mon.153, but iron., “εὔ. ἰατρός” Gal.15.913; “κύνες” Opp.C.3.383; εὔ. ἄκεα heroic remedies, Aret.CD1.2; so εὔτολμόν ἐστι c. inf., Id.CA2.1; τὸ εὔ. πρὸς τοὺς κινδύνους Andronic.Rhod.p.576 M. Adv. -μως Tyrt.15, A. Ag.1298, D.S.17.34: Comp. -ότερον Plu.Sol.14, Aret.CA1.1: Sup. -ότατα Ph.2.461.
II. in bad sense, daring, audacious, Anatolian Studies 204 (Termessus).
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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