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ὑστριχίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑστριχίς ὑστριχίδος

Structure: ὑστριχιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from u(/stric

Sense

  1. a whip for punishing slaves

Declension

Third 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

  • μῶν ὑστριχὶσ εἰσέβαλέν σοι ἐσ τὰσ πλευρὰσ πολλῇ στρατιᾷ κἀδενδροτόμησε τὸ νῶτον; (Aristophanes, Peace, Parabasis, parabasis4)
  • πάντα τρόπον, ἐν κλίμακι δήσασ κρεμάσασ ὑστριχίδι μαστιγῶν, δέρων, στρεβλῶν, ἔτι δ’ ἐσ τὰσ ῥῖνασ ὄξοσ ἐγχέων, πλίνθουσ ἐπιτιθείσ, πάντα τἄλλα, πλὴν πράσῳ μὴ τύπτε τοῦτον μηδὲ γητείῳ νέῳ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, iambics15)

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

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