mastigia
From LSJ
ὑμῖν ἔξεστι εὐδαίμοσι γενέσθαι → to you it is permitted to be joyful, it is permitted to be happy, it is permitted to be fortunate, vobis licet esse beatis
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
mastīgĭa: ae, m., = μαστιγίας>,
I a scoundrel, rascal, rogue.
I Lit. (anteclass.), Plaut. Curc. 4, 4, 11; id. Capt. 3, 4, 69; 3, 5, 1; id. Cas. 2, 6, 9; 2, 8, 10; id. Most. 1, 1, 1; 3, 1, 71; id. Poen. 1, 2, 108; 177; 178; id. Rud. 4, 83; id. Trin. 4, 3, 14: non manum abstines, mastigia? Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 6.—
II Transf., f., a whip, scourge (late Lat.), Sulp. Sev. Dial. 2, 3, 6.
