Pl. -os, -oes, also as L., Thrasones. [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, trans. 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.
