Ancient Greek

Noun

μάστῑξ • ‎(mástīx) f ‎(genitive μάστῑγος); third declension

1. (mostly for driving horses) whip, scourge
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.748
     • 11.532
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.3
     • 7.56
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 242
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.4..25
   • 519 BCE – 422 BCE, Cratinus, Collected Works 275
   • 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 933
   • Phryn., Com. 36
   1. (figuratively) lash of eloquence
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.219
2. (figuratively) scourge, plague
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.37
     • 13.812
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 682
   • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 608
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 642
   • New Testament, The Gospel of Mark 5.34

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References

• μάστιξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μάστιξ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μάστιξ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «μάστιξ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «μάστιξ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• μάστιξ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3148”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «μάστιξ» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • lash idem, page 477.
  • scourge idem, page 741.
  • whip idem, page 976.

1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “μάστιξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 911–912