μαστ-ίζω,
[[ 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 2.645 ] Refs 4th c.AD+], Doric dialect μαστ-ίσδω [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.108 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: Epic dialect aorist μάστιξα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.768:] Refs 8th c.BC+] —passive, aorist ἐμαστίχθην variant in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.114 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; participle μαστιχθείς [[ “Anthologia Graeca” 9.348 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor)] Refs 1st c.AD+]: (μάστιξ):—whip, flog, μάστιξεν δ᾽ ἵππους Il.[same place], etc.; τυ.. ὑπὸ.. ὤμους μαστίσδοιεν (see. above) [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus [same place]: with ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]infinitive, μάστιξεν δ᾽ ἐλάαν whipped them on or forward, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.366, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.82, etc.: _metaphorically_, ἵνα.. σε πολλοὶ μαστίξωσι λόγοις “epigram Gr.” 303.5 (from Smyrna). ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 stimulate the bowels, [[ 7th c.AD: Stephanus Medicus “in Hp.” 2.311 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator:] Refs 4th c.BC+] — passive [[, [prev. work]312 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator ] Refs 4th c.BC+]—Epic dialect word, used twice in Comedy texts, [[ 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 72, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 133.5, also in LXX.Num. 22.25, LXX.Wis.5.11 (_passive_)] LXX+5th c.BC+]; and in late Prose, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 42, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pr.Im.” 24, etc.] Refs 1st c.AD+]; the Attic dialect form being μαστιγόω.