Dictionary Tolmaô

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.

See also

Athena Shrine