τολμάω to undertake, take heart either to do or bear anything terrible or difficult, Hom., etc.:—absol. to hold out, endure, be patient, submit, Hom., Attic:—c. acc. rei, to endure, undergo, Theogn., Eur. c. inf. to have the courage, hardihood, effrontery, cruelty, or the grace, patience, to do a thing in spite of any natural feeling, to venture, dare to do, Hom., Attic sometimes c. part., ἐτόλμα βαλλόμενος he submitted to be struck, Od.; τόλμα ἐρῶσα Eur. c. acc., τολμᾶν πόλεμον to undertake, venture on it, Od.; τοιαῦτα, πάντα τ. Trag.; also, τ. τὰ βέλτιστα Thuc.: Pass., οἷʼ ἐτολμήθη πατήρ such things as my father had dared (or done) against him, Eur.