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Strong's #2970 - κῶμος
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- a revel, carousal
- a nocturnal and riotous procession of half drunken and frolicsome fellows who after supper parade through the streets with torches and music in honour of Bacchus or some other deity, and sing and play before houses of male and female friends; hence used generally of feasts and drinking parties that are protracted till late at night and indulge in revelry
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κῶμος, ὁ,
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1. 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. IG 2.971, 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.).
κῶμος, κωμου, ὁ (from κεῖμαι; accordingly equivalent to German Gelag; cf. Curtius, § 45); from (Homer h. Merc., Theognis) Herodotus down; a revel, carousal, i. e. in the Greek writings properly, a nocturnal and riotous procession of half-drunken and frolicsome fellows who after supper parade through the streets with torches and music in honor of Bacchus or some other deity, and sing and play before the houses of their male and female friends; hence, used generally, of feasts and drinking-parties that are protracted till late at night and indulge in revelry; plural (revellings): Romans 13:13; Galatians 5:21; 1 Peter 4:3. (Wis. 14:23; 2 Macc. 6:4.) (Trench, § lxi.)
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** κῶμος , -ου , ὁ ,
[in LXX: Wisdom of Solomon 14:23, 2 Maccabees 6:4*;]
a revel, carousal: Romans 13:13, Galatians 5:21, 1 Peter 4:3.†
SYN.: see κραιπάλη G2897.
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κῶμος, ";revel,"; revelling."; We are unable to illustrate this word, but reference may be made to the κωμασία, or sacred procession of the images of the gods in Egypt, as in P Tor I. Iviii. 21 (B.C. 116) προάγοντας τῆς κωμασίας, BGU I. 149.8 (ii/iii A.D.) ταῖς κωμασίαις τῶν θεῶν, P Par 69iv. 14 (A.D. 232) (= Chrest. I. 41) παρέτυχεν κωμασίᾳ ἐξ ἔθ [ους ἀγομέ ]νῃ Ἴσιδος θεᾶς μεγίστης, and OGIS 194.25 (B.C. 42) μετήλλαξε διηνεκῶς πο ]ηθῆναι τὰς τῶν κυρίων θεῶν κωμασίας. See further Sturzius Dial. Mac. p. 103 ff., and the classic passage in Clem. Al. Strom. V. vii. p. 354 f. (ed. Stählin). For κωμαστής cf. P Oxy X. 1265.9 (A.D. 336) κωμαστοῦ θίων προτομῶν καὶ νίκης αὐτῶν προαγούσης, ";celebrant of the divine images and their advancing victory"; (Edd.), with the accompanying note, and for κωμάζω see Deissmann BS p. 237.
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