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κομμός (A), ὁ, (κόπτω)
A.striking; esp. beating of the head and breast in lamentation, “ἔκοψα κομμὸν Ἄριον” A.Ch.423 (lyr.), cf. Bion 1.97 (pl.); hence,
2. in the Att. Drama, dirge, lament, sung alternately by one or more of the chief characters and the chorus, “κ. δὲ θρῆνος κοινὸς χοροῦ καὶ ἀπὸ σκηνῆς” Arist.Po.1452b24.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (3):
    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 423
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1452b.24
    • Bion of Phlossa, Epitaphius Adonis, 1.97
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