μαστίγων (mastigon)

μαστίγων is an Ancient Greek form of μαστιγόω, meaning “whip, flog”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Antony 68.4: … ίτας ἅπαντας ἀναγκάζεσθαι τοῖς ὤμοις καταφέρειν μέτρημα πυρῶν τεταγμένον ἐπὶ τὴν πρὸς Ἀντίκυραν θάλασσαν, ὑπὸ μαστίγων ἐπιταχυνομένους·

Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur 22: … ονέεις καὶ γὰρ οἱ κωμικοὶ τοιούτους εἰσάγουσιν ἐμέ, Νικόμαχε, πρὸς τὸν στρατιώτην τάξατε, ἂν μὴ ποιήσω πέπονα μαστιγῶν ὅλον, ἂν μὴ ποιήσω σπογγιᾶς μαλακώτερον τὸ πρόσωπον ἔπειτα τῶν μὲν φίλων οὐδεὶς γίγνεται συνεργός, εἰ μὴ γεγέ …

All forms of μαστιγόω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.