Κῶμος
revelry
Translated by Catharine Roth19 Feb 2009Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κῶμος· ἡ μέθη. καὶ ὀρχησμός. λέγεται δὲ καὶ ὁ στενὸς τόπος. σημαίνει δὲ καὶ τὸ κοίμημα.
Betacode
*kw=mos: h( me/qh. kai\ o)rxhsmo/s. le/getai de\ kai\ o( steno\s to/pos. shmai/nei de\ kai\ to\ koi/mhma.
Notes (3)
- [1] Same glossing in (e.g.) ps.-Herodian and a scholion (214.27 Rabe) on Lucian. See also kappa 2266.↩
- 2cf. kappa 2272. ↩
- 3Similar gloss in the Ambrosian Lexicon, according to Adler; and cf. kappa 2259. ↩
- 4This is a gloss on
kw=ma rather than the headwordkw=mos : cf. kappa 2251.
Linked from4 entries
- ε116Ἐγκώμιονin the village[Meaning] in the town. For a village [kw/mh] [is] the town's constituent-parts. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] e)gkwmia/zw se ["I praise you"]: [i.e. used] with an accusative.
- κ2251Κῶμαdeep sleep, coma[Meaning] slumber. "Alexander being full from a symposium came for revelry into Antipater's [sc. house], having been invited where all the friends [...]."
- κ2266ΚῶμόςrevelryA [kw=mos] is an inebriating pipe[-tune], when wine has been open a long time, promoting luxury and making the symposium an unseemly spectacle, beguiling the diners with cymbals and [other] instruments. And elsewhere:…
- κ2272Κῶμοιfestivals, revelries[Meaning] songs, or dances with drunkenness.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 2 May 2016
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth