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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

  • ἢν δέ ποτε καὶ ἐπινεύσῃ τινὶ καὶ πλούσιον ποιῇ, πολὺ τὸ ἄκριτον ἐνταῦθα, καὶ τοὺσ ἀγαθοὺσ ἐνίοτε καὶ συνετοὺσ ἀφεὶσ ὁ δὲ παμπονήροισ τε καὶ ἀνοήτοισ ἀνδράσι περιχεῖ τὸν πλοῦτον, μαστιγίαισ ἢ ἀνδρογύνοισ τοῖσ πλείστοισ αὐτῶν. (Lucian, Saturnalia, 3:3)
  • ἀφῃρεῖτο γὰρ εὐγενεῖσ ἀνθρώπουσ τὰ ὄντα μαστιγίαισ καὶ κόλαξι χαριζόμενοσ. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 24 4:2)

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

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