Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Mastigia

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

MASTI'GIA (μαστίγιας). Properly a Greek expression of reproach, meaning a good-for-nothing fellow, who deserves to be flogged (Plaut. Curc. iv. 4. 11. Terent. Ad. v. 2. 6.); equivalent to the Latin verbero.

2. Hence a whip (μάστιξ). Sulp. Sev. Dial. ii. 3.