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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

  • τὰ δὲ αὐτὰ καὶ ἐν τοῖσ ἐπιβάταισ, μαστιγίαν μέν τινα ἐν προεδρίᾳ παρὰ τὸν κυβερνήτην καθήμενον καὶ θεραπευόμενον, καὶ ἄλλον κίναιδον ἢ πατραλοίαν ἢ ἱερόσυλον ὑπερτιμώμενον καὶ τὰ ἄκρα τῆσ νεὼσ κατειληφότα, χαρίεντασ δὲ πολλοὺσ ἐν μυχῷ τοῦ σκάφουσ στενοχωρουμένουσ καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν πρὸσ ἀλήθειαν χειρόνων πατουμένουσ· (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 48:2)
  • "Καλλιμέδοντα τὸν μαστιγίαν λάβωμεν, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, στρεβλώσομεν· (Plutarch, chapter 35 1:2)

Related

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

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