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κωμῳδός , ὁ, late Boeot. κωμαϝυδός (i.e. κωμαοιδός) IG7.3195.23 (Orchom.):—prop.
A.singer in the κῶμος or comic chorus, “χορὸς κωμῳδῶν” Arist.Po.1449b1; “κωμῳδοῖς χορηγεῖν” Lys.21.4, Arist.EN1123a23: hence, in pl., in the sense performance of comedy, “κωμῳδῶν ὄντων ἐν Κολυττῷ” Aeschin.1.157; “ἀνειπεῖν Διονυσίων τοῖς κ.” at the performance, IG22.1202.15; “οὐδέ τοι ὑποκριταὶ κωμῳδοῖς τε καὶ τραγῳδοῖς οἱ αὐτοί” Pl.R.395a, cf. Phdr.236c, Lg.935d; καινῇ κωμῳδῶν, v. καινός.
2. later, comic actor, Chares 4 J., PCair.Zen.417.11 (iii B.C.), Plu.Cic.5, IG42(1).99.25 (Epid., i/ii A.D.): generally, actor, M.Ant.12.36, Ath. 14.620d.
b. perh. singer of comic lyrics, SIG424.57 (Delph., iii B.C.); χορευταὶ κωμῳδοῦ ib.690.18 (ibid., ii B.C.).
3. later still, comic poet, ὁ κ., of Aristophanes, Phryn.PSp.79 B., cf. Sch.D.T. p.19 H.: this sense is doubtful in Pl.Lg.l.c.
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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