πληγ-ή,
Doric dialect πλᾱγά, ἡ, (πλήσσω) blow, stroke, πεπληγὼν πληγῇσιν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.264, etc.; πᾶν ἑρπετὸν πληγῇ νέμεται 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 11, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 109b, 3rd c.BC: Erasistratus Medicus cited in Pseudo-Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus “Ther.” 18; ἡ π. τοῦ τραύματος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 877b ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: frequently joined with Verbs of cognate signification, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγήν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1343; τύπτει τὰς ἴσας πληγὰς ἐμοί 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 636 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τύπτεσθαι τῇ δημοσίᾳ μάστιγι ν πληγάς Legal cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.139; πολλὰς πληγὰς μαστιγούσθω 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 914b (but in such phrases πληγήν or πληγάς] Refs 5th c.BC+] is frequently omitted, τρίτην ἐπενδίδωμι [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1386; τυπτόμενος πολλάς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 972, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.197; ὀλίγας παῖσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.8.12; μαστιγωθεὶς ὁπόσας ἂν δόξῃ τοῖς δικασταῖς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 854d, compare 879e, NT.2Cor.11.24): the person struck is said πληγὰς λαβεῖν, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 673; ὑπὸ τῶν ῥαβδούχων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.50, etc.; πληγῶν δεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 493; πληγὴν ἔχω 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 72; ὑπὸ τὴν π. τοῦ ἀκοντίου ὑπελθεῖν 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.4.4 ] NT+5th c.BC+]; καιρίῃ (i.e. πληγῇ) τετύφθαι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.64; πληγὰς ὑπομένειν 4th c.BC: Aristopho Comicus 4.6; εἰληφέναι καὶ δεδωκέναι πληγάς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ἐμβαλεῖν, ἐντείνειν τινί, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.11, 2.4.11, etc.; πατάξαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 527d; ἐντρίβειν τινί 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Ind.” 25, compare “Somn.” 14; προστρίβεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 5; τὰς ἐξ ἀνθρώπων πληγὰς μαστιγοῦν τινα 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.59; πληγὴν ἐπὶ πληγῇ φέρειν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.33.6; π. παρὰ πληγήν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 643 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πληγαῖς ζημιοῦν, κολάζειν, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.74, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 762c, etc.; δίκη ὕβρεως ἢ πληγῶν “PHal.” 1.115 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πληγῆς ἄρχειν strike the first blow, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.2.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰς π. στέγειν, of the shell of a tortoise, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1295. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]