Translation of "audens" into English

Itaque ad quemvis numerum ephippiatorum equitum quamvis pauci adire audent.

Accordingly, they have the courage, though they be themselves but few, to advance against any number whatever of horse mounted with housings.

Haec a custodiis classium loca maxime vacabant, quod se longius a portibus committere non audebant.

That these parts principally were left unguarded by the enemy's fleet, because they dare not venture too far from the harbor.