Ancient Greek

Adjective

μαστῑγοφόρος • ‎(mastīgophóros) m, f ‎(neuter μαστῑγοφόρον); second declension

1. scourge-bearing
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 35.1
   1. an epithet of Ajax
      • Arg., S.Aj.

Declension

Noun

μαστῑγοφόρος • ‎(mastīgophóros) m ‎(genitive μαστῑγοφόρου); second declension

1. a policeman, especially at the Games
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, 4 47
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Hermotimus 40
   1. (generally) of attendants on officials
      • PTeb. 121.58
      • PTeb. 179
      • PCair., Zen. 80.4

Declension

References

• μαστῑγοφόρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μαστιγοφόρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «μαστιγοφόρος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • whip idem, page 976.