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κ2268comedies
κ2269comedy-maker, comic poet
κ2270always clown-licking the man who is prospering
κ2271of villages
κ2272festivals, revelries
κ2273hamlet
κ2274hay-bundle, sheaf
κ2275women dosed with hemlock
κ2276to pitch (?) a wine-jar

Suda/Κ kappa/κ2272

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Κῶμοι

festivals, revelries

Translated by Catharine Roth19 Feb 2009Vetting: high3 revisions

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6 words

Translation

[Meaning] songs, or dances with drunkenness.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κῶμοι· ᾠδαί, ἢ ὀρχήσεις μετὰ μέθης.

Betacode

*kw=moi: w)|dai/, h)\ o)rxh/seis meta\ me/qhs.

Notes

Same or similar entry elsewhere; see the references at Photius, Lexicon kappa1312 Theodoridis. The headword, nominative plural of this noun, must be quoted from somewhere -- probably Plato, Republic 573C (see the scholia there).
cf. kappa 2265.

Linked from2 entries

κ2265Κῶμοςrevelry[Meaning] drunkenness. And dancing. It is also the name for a narrow place. It also means sleep [koi/mhma].
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:…

Neighbouring entries

κ2270Κωμῳδολοιχῶν περὶ τὸν εὖ πράττοντ' ἀείalways clown-licking the man who is prospering κ2271Κωμῶνof villages κ2272Κῶμοιfestivals, revelries κ2273Κωμύδριονhamlet κ2274Κώμυθαhay-bundle, sheaf

Revision history3 revisions · last 2 May 2016

2 May 2016Revised — David Whitehead
15 Mar 2013tweaking — David Whitehead
19 Feb 2009more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
19 Feb 2009Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Κῶμοι (Adler number kappa 2272), trans. Catharine Roth, 19 Feb 2009. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/2272

Translation by Catharine Roth for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗