‖ Thraso
(ˈθreɪsəʊ)
Pl. -os, -oes, also as L., Thrasones (-ˈəʊniːz).
[L., ad. Gr. θράσων, name of a braggart soldier in Terence's Eunuchus, f. θρασ-ύς bold, spirited.]
A braggart, a boaster.
| [1563 B. Googe Eglogs (Arb.) 85 In Countreye Venus hath defecte, In Countreye Thraso hath no grace.] a 1576 Pilkington Expos. Nehem. iv. 14 (1585) 62 b, These big boasting Thrasones and vaunting Milites gloriosi. 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Vn Tevot, a Thraso. 1650 French tr. Sandivogius' Alchymie Pref. A iij b, Vapouring Thrasoes or Letter-learned scoffers. 1716 Bolingbroke Refl. on Exile (1777) 351 Philosophy has her Thrasos as well as war. |