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μάστ-ιξ , ι_γος, ἡ,
A.whip, scourge, mostly for driving horses, Il.5.748, etc.; “μ. λιγυρῇ” 11.532; ἵππου μ. horse-whip, Hdt.4.3; λιγυρὰ μ. “διπλῆ” S.Aj.242 (anap.); later, scourge, ὑπὸ μαστίγων διαβαίνειν to cross under the lash, of soldiers flogged on, Hdt.7.56, cf.103; “τοξεύειν ὑπὸ μ.” X.An.3.4.25; “τῇ μ. κνάπτειν” Cratin.275; μάστιγ᾽ ἔχων whip in hand, Ar.Th.933, Phryn.Com.36.
II. metaph., scourge, plague, “μάστιξ Διός” Il.12.37, 13.812; “μάστιγι θείᾳ . . ἐλαύνομαι” A.Pr.682; “πληγεὶς θεοῦ μάστιγι” Id.Th.608; διπλῇ μ., τὴν Ἄρης φιλεῖ, i.e. fire and sword, Id.Ag.642; μ. [Θεοῦ], of sickness, Ev.Marc.5.34, cf. 3.10 (pl.); but μάστιξ Πειθοῦς the lash of eloquence, Pi.P.4.219:—Ion. μάστις (q. v.): μάστιγξ is not found.
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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