The corpus record

μαστίζω

mastizo

whip, flog

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Where it lives

Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Iliad 7 · 0.63/10k
Acts 1 · 0.56/10k
Odyssey 4 · 0.46/10k
Numeri 1 · 0.43/10k

What it meant

μαστ-ίζω · mast-izō — LSJ

whip, flog, whipped

whip, flog, μάστιξεν δʼ ἵππους Il. l.c., etc.; τυ . . ὑπὸ . . ὤμους μαστίσδοιεν (v. supr.) Theoc. l.c.: c. inf., μάστιξεν δʼ 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

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.

In the wild

μάστιξεν · mastixen Iliad 10.530
μάστιξεν · mastixen Iliad 11.519
μάστιξέν · mastixen Iliad 22.400
μάστιξεν · mastixen Iliad 5.366
μάστιξεν · mastixen Iliad 5.768
μάστιξεν · mastixen Iliad 8.117

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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