The corpus record

μαστῑγ-όω

mastigoo

whip, flog

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Where it lives

Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 4 · 7.61/10k
Machabaeorum II 5 · 4.33/10k
Proverbia 4 · 3.6/10k
On the Art of Horsemanship 2 · 2.88/10k
Enchiridion 1 · 2.02/10k
Hebrews 1 · 1.99/10k
Matthew 3 · 1.67/10k
Job 2 · 1.5/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Deuteronomium 3 · 1.34/10k
Judith 1 · 1.14/10k
Daniel (LXX) 1 · 0.95/10k

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μαστῑγ-όω · mastig-oō — LSJ

whip, flog, let him be whipped

whip, flog, Hdt. 1.114 (μαστιγέων codd.), 3.16, 7.54; μυρίκῃ ἢ μαλάχῃ Luc. Ind. 3:—Pass., Lys. 1.18, etc.; πληγὰς μαστιγούσθω let him be whipped, Pl. Lg. 914b, cf. 845a; ψυχῆς ἠσκημένης καὶ μεμαστιγωμένης Max.Tyr. 25.5.

In the wild

μαστιγοῦσθαι · mastigousthai Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1115a (DIORISIS sentence 845)
μαστιγῶσαι · mastigōsai Aristotle, Politics 1311b (DIORISIS sentence 2113)
μαστιγῶσαι · mastigōsai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2505)
μεμαστίγωσο · memastigōso Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2507)
μαστιγούτω · mastigoutō Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3734)
μαστιγωθείς · mastigōtheis Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.5 (DIORISIS sentence 5379)

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Where it came from

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