Mark 3:10

Pressed upon [ε π ι π ι π τ ε ι ν]. Lit., fell upon.

Plagues [μ α σ τ ι γ α ς]. Lit., scourges. Compare Acts 22:24; Hebrews 11:36. Our word plague is from plhgh, Latin plaga, meaning a blow. Pestilence or disease is thus regarded as a stroke from a divine hand. Plhgh is used in classical Greek in this metaphorical sense. Thus Sophocles, "Ajax," 279 : "I fear that a calamity [π λ η γ η] is really come from heaven (qeou, God)." So of war. Aeschylus, "Persae," 251 : " O Persian land, how hath the abundant prosperity been destroyed by a single blow [ε ν μ ι α π λ η γ η]. The word here, scourges, carries the same idea.