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μαστ-ίζω , Nonn.D.2.645, Dor. μαστ-ίσδω Theoc.7.108: Ep. aor.
A.“μάστιξα” Il.5.768:—Pass., aor. ἐμαστίχθην v.l. in Hdt.1.114; part. “μαστιχθείς” AP9.348 (Leon. Alex.): (μάστιξ):—whip, flog, μάστιξεν δ᾽ ἵππους Il.l.c., etc.; τυ . . ὑπὸ . . ὤμους μαστίσδοιεν (v. supr.) Theoc. l.c.: c. inf., μάστιξεν δ᾽ ἐλάαν whipped them on or forward, Il.5.366, Od.6.82, etc.: metaph., “ἵνα . . σε πολλοὶ μαστίξωσι λόγοις” Epigr.Gr. 303.5 (Smyrna).
2. stimulate the bowels, Steph. in Hp.2.311 D.:— Pass., ib.312 D.—Ep. word, used twice in Com., Eup.72, Alex.133.5, also in LXX Nu. 22.25, Wi.5.11 (Pass.); and in late Prose, Plu.Alex. 42, Luc.Pr.Im.24, etc.; the Att. form being μαστιγόω.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.114
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.366
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.768
    • Homer, Odyssey, 6.82
    • Plutarch, Alexander, 42
    • Old Testament, Numbers, 22.25
    • Lucian, Pro imaginibus, 24
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