A.“ἐκώμα^σα” E.HF 180; poet. κώμ- Pi.N.10.35; Dor. imper. -άξατε ib.2.24: pf. “κεκώμα^κα” AP5.111 (Phld.): (κῶμος):—revel, make merry, “νέοι κώμαζον ὑπ᾽ αὐλοῦ” Hes.Sc.281; “κωμάζοντα μετ᾽ αὐλητῆρος ἀείδειν” Thgn.1065, cf. S.Fr.764, E.Alc.815, etc.; “κ. μετὰ μέθης” Pl.Lg.637a; “κ. καὶ παιωνίζειν” D.18.287; “ὀρχούμενος καὶ κ.” Theopomp.Hist.153; “κ. μεθ᾽ ἡμέραν” Lys. 14.25, Phld.Acad.Ind.p.47 M.; go in festal procession, “Σικυωνόθεν εἰς Αἴτναν” Pi.N.9.1; “ὃς ἐν ταῖς πομπαῖς ἄνευ τοῦ προσώπου κ.” D.19.287: metaph., “νήσους κώμασον εἰς μακάρων” Call.Epigr.in Berl.Sitzb.1912.548; esp. in Egypt, take part in religious processions, PGnom.200, 214 (ii A.D.): hence trans., carry images, etc., in procession, ναόν, ξόανον κ., ib.211, BGU362 vii 17 (iii A.D.):—Pass., “χρὴ τὰς θεὰς κωμάζεσθαι” Sammelb.421 (iii A.D.).
II. esp. celebrate a κῶμος in honour of the victor at the games, “κ. σὺν ἑταίροις” Pi.O.9.4, etc.: c. acc. cogn., “ἑορτὰν κ.” Id.N.11.28; “τὸν καλλίνικον μετὰ θεῶν ἐκώμασεν” E.HFl.c.
2. c. dat. pers., approach with a κῶμος, sing in his honour, Pi.I.7(6).20 (in fut. Med., Id.P.9.89); “ἡ Ἀφροδίτη κ. παρὰ τὸν Διόνυσον” Plu.Ant.26.
3. c. acc. pers., honour or celebrate him in or with the κῶμος, Pi.N.10.35, I.4(3).72; κ. Δία Τιμοδήμῳ celebrate Zeus for Timodemos' sake, Id.N.2.24.
III. break in upon in the manner of revellers, serenade, of lovers, Alc.56; “ἐπὶ γαμετὰς γυναῖκας” Is.3.14, cf. Luc.DMar.1.4; “κ. ποτὶ τὰν Ἀμαρυλλίδα” Theoc.3.1, cf. Ath.8.348c; “παρά τινι” Arr.An.7.24.4; “εἴς τινα” Alciphr.1.6; “ἐπὶ τὰς ἑταιρίδων θύρας” Ath.13.574e: generally, burst in, “εἰς τόπον” APl.4.102; of evil, “ἄτη ἐς πόλιν ἐκώμασεν” Tryph.314; “θρῆνος εἰς ὑμέναιον” AP7.186 (Phil.); of Alexander, “καθ᾽ ὅλης τῆς ὑφ᾽ ἡλίῳ” Him.Ecl.2.18: prov., ὗς ἐκώμασεν, 'a bull in a china-shop', Diogenian.8.60; εἰς μελίττας ἐκώμασας 'you have raised a hornet's nest about your ears', Paus.Gr.Fr.160, Zen.3.53, etc.
