ῥαπίζω
οἱ μὲν εὐποροῦμεν οἱ δ' ἀλύομεν → some of us prosper and others are at our wit's end, some of us are prospering and others of us are at our wit's end
English (LSJ)
(ῥαπίς)
A strike with a stick, cudgel, thrash, τινα Xenoph.7.4, Hippon.64 (Pass.), Hdt.7.35,223, D.25.57, LXX Jd.16.25, Plb.8.6.6, Phld.Ir.p.40 W.; τινὰ ῥάβδῳ Anacreont.29.2:—Pass., ῥ. ἐκ τῶν ἀγώνων to be flogged off the course, Heraclit.42, cf. Hdt.8.59: Ion. pf. part., ῥεραπισμένα νῶτα Anacr.166. II slap in the face (later for Att. ἐπὶ κόρρης πατάξαι) , ἐπὶ κόρρης ῥ. (metaph.) Plu.2.713c; κατὰ κόρρης Ach.Tat.2.24; εἰς τὴν σιαγόνα Ev.Matt.5.39:—Pass., ῥαπισθῆναί τε καὶ πληγὰς λαβεῖν ἁπαλαῖσι χερσίν Timocl.22.5; ἐρραπίσθη τὴν γνάθον Hyp.Fr.97, cf. AB300; ῥαπίζειν distd. from κολαφίζειν, Ev.Matt.26.67. III generally, strike, beat, [τὸν ἀέρα] Arist.de An.419b23:—Pass., Id.Mete.368a16, 370a14, Epicur.Fr.398.
