the Rhetoricians’ scourge
the Rhetoricians’ scourge, as Aeschines of Mytilene was called, D.L. 2.64.
The corpus record
ῥητορο-μάστιξ
retoromastix · ὁ
the Rhetoricians’ scourge
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Where it lives
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ῥητορομάστιγα · rhētoromastiga Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.7 (DIORISIS sentence 1534)
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.