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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

  • αὐλὰσ θεραπεύειν δ’ ἐστίν, ὡσ ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ, ἢ φυγάδοσ ἢ πεινῶντοσ ἢ μαστιγίου, ἤτοι διὰ τὸ μεγάλουσ ἔχειν τοὺσ πρὸ τῶν οἴκων ὑπαιθρίουσ τόπουσ ἢ τῷ παραυλίζεσθαι καὶ παρακοιμᾶσθαι τοὺσ δορυφόρουσ τοῖσ βασιλείοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 15 3:2)
  • μαστιγίου δέ τινοσ μειρακιευομένου πρὸσ αὐτὴν καὶ φαμένου πολλαῖσ συμπεπλέχθαι, καθ’ ὑπόκρισιν ἐσκυθρώπασεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 49 3:7)

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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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