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κομάω , Ion. κολυμβ-έω , (κόμη)
A.let the hair grow long, “Ἄβαντες ὄπιθεν κομόωντες” Il.2.542; “κάρη κομόωντες Ἀχαιοί” 3.43, al.; “κ. τὴν κεφαλήν” Hdt.4.168; τὰ ὀπίσω κ. τῆς κεφαλῆς ib.180; τὰ ἐπὶ δεξιὰ τῶν κεφαλέων κ. ib.191; “τὸ γένειον τῇ κεφαλῇ ὁμοίως κ.” X.Smp.4.28; “ξανθοτάτοις βοτρύχοισι κ.” Pherecr.189; “ἄρσεσιν οὐκ ἐπέοικε κ.” Ps.-Phoc.212; “Λακεδαιμόνιοι . . οὐ γὰρ κομῶντες πρὸ τούτου ἀπὸ τούτου κομᾶν” Hdt.1.82, cf. Arist.Rh.1367a29, Philostr.VA3.15; “ἐλακωνομάνουν ἅπαντες . . , ἐκόμων” Ar.Av.1282; μὴ φθονεῖθ᾽ ἡμῖν (sc. τοῖς ἱππεῦσι）“ κομῶσι” Id.Eq. 580; “κομῶν καὶ αὐχμηρός” Arist.Rh.1413a9, cf. D.H.6.26; ἔνορκον ἂν ποιησαίμην μὴ πρότερον κομήσειν (in token of a vow) πρίν . . Pl.Phd. 89c; “ἀνὴρ μὲν ἐὰν κομᾷ, ἀτιμία αὐτῷ ἐστι: γυνὴ δὲ ἐὰν κομᾷ, δόξα αὐτῇ ἐστιν” 1 Ep.Cor.11.14-15.
2. plume oneself, give oneself airs, “τοιοῦτος ἀνὴρ ὢν ποιητὴς οὐ κομῶ” Ar.Nu.545, cf. Pl.170; οὗτος ἐπὶ τυραννίδι ἐκόμησε aimed at the monarchy, Hdt.5.71; ἐπὶ τῷ κομᾷς; on what do you plume yourself? Ar.V.1317; “μηδὲν ταύτῃ γε κομήσῃς” Id.Pl.572; “κ. ἐπὶ κάλλει” Plu.Caes.45, cf. Luc.Nigr.1; ἐπ᾽ Ἠρίννῃ κ., of her lover, AP11.322 (Antiphan.): c.dat., Opp.C.3.192.
II. of horses, “χρυσέῃσιν ἐθείρῃσιν κομόωντε” Il.8.42, 13.24.
III. of the hair itself, to be long, Opp.C.3.28.
IV. metaph., of trees, plants, etc., [οὖθαρ ἀρούρης] μέλλεν ἄφαρ ταναοῖσι κομήσειν ἀσταχύεσσιν soon were the fields to wave with long ears, h.Cer.454; “μᾶζαι βώλοις κομῶσαι” Cratin.165; “ἁ δὲ καλὰ νάρκισσος ἐπ᾽ ἀρκεύθοισι κομάσαι” Theoc.1.133, cf. 4.57; “αἴγειρος φύλλοισι κομόωσα” A.R.3.928; “ὄρος κεκομημένον ὕλῃ” Call.Dian. 41; “ἡ γῆ φυτοῖς κομῶσα” Arist.Mu.397a24, cf. Ael.Fr.75; “κομῶντα λήϊα” Procop.Gaz.Ep.23.
V. ἀστέρες κομόωντες, = κομῆται, Arat. 1092.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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