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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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • τοὺσ μὲν γὰρ λαγὼσ λέγουσι τίκτειν ἅμα καὶ τρέφειν ἕτερα καὶ ἐπικυΐσκεσθαι πάλιν, τὰ δὲ τῶν μαστιγιῶν τούτων καὶ βαρβάρων χρέα πρὶν ἢ συλλαβεῖν τίκτει· (Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno, chapter, section 4 6:1)
  • κατὰ γὰρ τὸν Σοφοκλέουσ Κηδαλίωνά ἐστε μαστιγίαι, κέντρωνεσ, ἀλλοτριοφάγοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 574)

Related

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

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