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κῶμος , ὁ,
A.revel, carousal, merry-making, “εἰς δαῖτα θάλειαν καὶ χορὸν ἱμερόεντα καὶ ἐς φιλοκυδέα κ.” h.Merc.481, cf. Thgn.829, 940; “πίνειν καὶ κώμῳ χρᾶσθαι” Hdt.1.21, cf. E.Alc.804, etc.; “κῶμοι καὶ εὐφροσύναι” B.10.12; “δεῖπνα καὶ σὺν αὐλητρίσι κῶμοι” Pl.Tht.173d; “ἑορταὶ καὶ κ.” Id.R.573d; ἐν κώμῳ εἶναι, of a city, X.Cyr.7.5.25; “ἔρχεσθαί τισιν ἐπὶ κῶμον” Id.Smp.2.1; “ἐπὶ κῶμον βαδίζειν” Ar.Pl.1040; esp. in honour of gods, τοῖς ἐν ἄστει Διονυσίοις ἡ πομπὴ . . καὶ ὁ κ. Lexap.D. 21.10, cf. IG2.971, etc.; κώμῳ θυραμάχοις τε πυγμαχίαισι Pratin.Lyr. 1.8; “χοροῖς ἢ κώμοις Ὑακίνθου” E.Hel.1469 (lyr.).
2. concrete, band of revellers, “κ. εὐίου θεοῦ” Id.Ba.1167 (lyr.); esp. of the procession which celebrated a victor in games, Pi.P.5.22, etc.: generally, rout, band, “κ. Ἐρινύων” A.Ag.1189; of an army, “κ. ἀναυλότατος” E.Ph.791 (lyr.); “κ. ἀσπιδηφόρος” Id.Supp.390; band of hunters, Id.Hipp.55; of maidens, Id.Tr.1184; of doves, Id.Ion 1197.
II. the ode sung at one of these festive processions, Pi.P.8.20, 70, O.4.10, B.8.103; “μελιγαρύων τέκτονες κώμων” Pi.N.3.5, cf. Ar.Th.104, 988 (both lyr.).
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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