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μαστιγίης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαστιγίης μαστιγίου

Structure: μαστιγι (Stem) + ᾱς (Ending)

Etym.: ma/stic

Sense

  1. one that always wants whipping, a worthless slave, a sorry knave

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οὐκ ἐρρήσετ’ ὦ μαστιγίαι; (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene22)
  • κατὰ γὰρ τὸν Σοφοκλέουσ Κηδαλίωνά ἐστε μαστιγίαι, κέντρωνεσ, ἀλλοτριοφάγοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 574)
  • ἔτι τοίνυν ἴσωσ ἐπισύροντεσ ἐροῦσιν ὡσ Μεγαρεῖσ καὶ Μεσσήνιοί τινεσ εἶναι φάσκοντεσ, ἔπειτ’ ἀτελεῖσ εἰσιν, ἁθρόοι παμπληθεῖσ ἄνθρωποι, καί τινεσ ἄλλοι δοῦλοι καὶ μαστιγίαι, Λυκίδασ καὶ Διονύσιοσ, καὶ τοιούτουσ τινὰσ ἐξειλεγμένοι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 175:1)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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