A.of or for comedy, comic, later form for “κωμῳδικός, κ. ὑποκριτής” Aeschin.1.157; “ποητάς” SIG711L 15 (Delph., ii B.C.); κ. χορός, ὄρχησις, Arist.Pol.1276b5, Demetr.Lac.Herc.1012.21; “προσωπεῖον” Luc.Bis Acc.33; “ἱλαρῷ καὶ κ. προσώπῳ” Id.Cal.24, cf. Plu.Ant.29.
II. Subst. κωμικός, ὁ, comedian, i.e. either comic actor, Alex.98.13; or comic poet, Plb.12.13.3, Phld.Mus.p.16 K. (pl.), Plu.2.62e, etc.; ὁ κ., κατ᾽ ἐξοχήν, = Aristophanes, Luc.Prom.Es2, etc. Adv. -“κῶς” Ph.1.473, D.L.5.88.