Other forms
The Greek genitive form ''mastigos'' gives rise to a botanical prefix ''mastigo-''; the suffix ''-mastix'' or ''-mastyx'' also occurs in botanical use for the whip form, for example in '' Uromastix''. The plural form of the suffix is -mastiges, for example "Francomastiges" from "Francomastix", a term used by Guillaume Budé.Classical Latin and Greek
To form the title ''Histrio-mastix'', Marston innovated by drawing on the nickname ''Homeromastix'' (Scourge of Homer) given to the Greek critic ofExamples from Early Modern Latin literature
*Bezamastix, from Theodore Beza *Capniomastix, scourge of Capnio, i.e., Johann Reuchlin, applied to Johannes Pfefferkorn *Erasmomastix, from Desiderius Erasmus *Hebraeomastix by Jerome of Santa Fe *Heluetiomastix, scourge of the Swiss *Huttenomastix, scourge of Ulrich von Hutten *stauromastix, scourge of the CrossEnglish satire revival of the 1590s
Three noted English poets were writing satirical verse by the later 1590s: John Donne, Joseph Hall, and John Marston. Donne used a -mastix construction, "female-mastix", to refer to Baptista Mantuanus (Mantuan), reputedly a misogynist based on his fourth eclogue, in his Elegy XIV. Hall's ''Virgidemiarum Six Bookes'' of 1597–8 contains a boast that he was the first English satirist; ''virgidemia'' translates from Latin as a "harvest of rods". The revival of satire lasted until the Bishops' Ban of 1599, in which the ecclesiastical authorities clamped down, with book burning applied to works of Everard Guilpin, Marston, William Rankins and others.Marston and ''Histrio-mastix''
The years following the Bishops' Ban saw the War of the Theatres, as satire took to the stage. The cluster of plays ''The Scourge of Villanie'' (John Marston, pseudonym taken "Theriomastix", i.e. scourge of the beast), ''Histrio-Mastix'', ''Satiromastix'', and '' Every Man out of His Humour'' byUsage
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Other uses are: *''Papisto mastix, or, The Protestants Religion Defended'' (1606), by William Middleton *''Atheomastix; clearing foure truthes, against atheists and infidels'' (1622), by Martin Fotherby *''Zoilomastix'', short title for ''Vindiciae Hibernicae contra Giraldum Cambrensem et alios vel Zoilomastigos'' (1622) by Philip O'Sullivan Beare. O'Sullivan wrote also a ''Tenebriomastix'', and an ''Archicornigeromastix'' against James Ussher. *''Profanomastix'' (1639), anti-Puritan work by John Swan *Antibrownistus Puritanomastix, pseudonym under which three royalist speeches of 1642 were published. *''Aerio Mastix, or a Vindication of the Apostolicall and generally received Government of the Church of Christ by Bishops'', Oxford, 1643, by John Theyer *''Chiliasto-mastix; or, The prophecies in the Old and New Testament'' (1644), by Alexander Petrie *''Mercurio-Coelico mastix'' (1644), by Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet *''Astrologo-Mastix'' (1646) by John Geree *''Hagiomastix, or, The Scourge of the Saints'' (1647), by John Goodwin and anonymous reply ''Moro-mastix: Mr Iohn Goodwin whipt with his own rod'' (1647) *''Pseudo-mastix'' (, printed 1888) by Michael Lemprière *''Smectymnuo-mastix, or Short Animadversions upon Smectymnuus'' (1651), by Hamon L'Estrange *''Alazono-Mastix; Or, the Character of a Cockney in a Satyricall Poem'' (1651), by Junius Anonymus; see Alazon for the reference to an imposter. This poem on London apprentices was discussed in the '' Retrospective Review''. It is not connected with the pseudonym "Alazonomastix Philalethes" used at the same period by Henry More in controversy with Thomas Vaughan ("Eugenius Philalethes"). *''Mercurius Mastix'' (1652), attributed to Samuel Sheppard *''Histrio-mastix. A Whip for Webster'' (1654), against John Webster, and ''Chiliastomastix redivivus: ... a Confutation of the Millenarian Opinion'' (1657), against Nathaniel Holmes, by Thomas Hall *Virtuoso-mastix, applied in 1671 by Joseph Glanvill to Henry Stubbe. *''Rogero Mastix, a Rod for William Rogers'' (1685), by Thomas Ellwood *''Tolando-pseudologo-mastix, an Answer to Toland's "Hypatia"'' (anon.), 1721, by John King *''Zoilomastix, or, A Vindication of Milton from All the Invidious Charges of Mr William Lauder'' (1747) by Richard Richardson, against the forger William Lauder *''Medico-mastix'' (anon.), 1771, by Ralph Schomberg *''Sæculo-Mastix, or the Lash of the Age we live In'' (1818) by Francis Hodgson, verse containing criticism of the poetry ofNotes
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