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ῥα^πίζω , (ῥαπίς)
A.strike with a stick, cudgel, thrash, τινα Xenoph.7.4, Hippon.64 (Pass.), Hdt.7.35,223, D.25.57, LXX Jd.16.25, Plb.8.6.6, Phld.Ir.p.40 W.; “τινὰ ῥάβδῳ” Anacreont.29.2:—Pass., ῥ. ἐκ τῶν ἀγώνων to be flogged off the course, Heraclit.42, cf. Hdt.8.59: Ion. pf. part., “ῥεραπισμένα νῶτα” Anacr.166.
II. slap in the face (later for Att. ἐπὶ κόρρης πατάξαι）, ἐπὶ κόρρης ῥ. (metaph.) Plu.2.713c; “κατὰ κόρρης” Ach.Tat.2.24; “εἰς τὴν σιαγόνα” Ev.Matt.5.39:—Pass., “ῥαπισθῆναί τε καὶ πληγὰς λαβεῖν ἁπαλαῖσι χερσίν” Timocl.22.5; “ἐρραπίσθη τὴν γνάθον” Hyp.Fr.97, cf. AB300; ῥαπίζειν distd. from κολαφίζειν, Ev.Matt.26.67.
III. generally, strike, beat, [τὸν ἀέρα] Arist.de An.419b23:—Pass., Id.Mete.368a16, 370a14, Epicur.Fr.398.
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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    • Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1, 57
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.35
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.59
    • Polybius, Histories, 8.6.6
    • New Testament, Matthew, 26.67
    • New Testament, Matthew, 5.39
    • Achilles Tatius, Leucippe et Clitophon, 2.24
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