The corpus record

ῥᾰπίζω

rapizo

strike with a stick, cudgel, thrash

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Where it lives

Osee 1 · 2.65/10k
Esdras I 1 · 1.22/10k
Matthew 2 · 1.12/10k
Eudemian Ethics 1 · 0.38/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
Histories 3 · 0.16/10k

What it meant — LSJ

strike with a stick, cudgel, thrash, to be flogged

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

slap in the face (later for Att. ἐπὶ κόρρης πατάξαι) , ἐπὶ κόρρης ῥ. (metaph.) Plu. QConv. 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. AB 300; ῥαπίζειν distd. from κολαφίζειν, Ev.Matt. 26.67.

III strike, beat

generally, strike, beat, [τὸν ἀέρα] Arist. de An. 419b23:—Pass., Id. Mete. 368a16, 370a14, Epicur. Fr. 398.

In the wild

ῥαπιζόμενον · rhapizomenon Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 2
ῥάπιζʼ · rhapizʼ Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7297)
ῥαπίζεσθαι · rhapizesthai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7680)
ἐρράπιζον · errapizon Herodotus, Histories 7.223.3 (DIORISIS sentence 8358)
ῥαπίζοντας · rhapizontas Herodotus, Histories 7.35.2 (DIORISIS sentence 7288)
ῥαπίζονται · rhapizontai Herodotus, Histories 8.59.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8751)

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