comastic

comparative more comastic · superlative most comastic

1. alternativeAlternative form of komastic.

   We could choose to imagine him (and hypothetical stagings are always themselves acts of interpretation) as joining the procession with some solemnity, perhaps. But we might prefer to picture him as contributing something more like a comastic sideshow to it.

   2011, Stephen Halliwell, Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 154

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   A brilliant and picturesque scene of such comastic ὕβρις is given by Herondas in the dicastic harangue of the Πορνοβοσκός, the low pander who, in spite of consciousness of his despised trade, pleads for justice against the violence of one who has set fire to his door-frame, broken in his door, beaten soundly the pander himself, and maltreated one of his girls.

   1925, Classical Philology, volume 20, page 301

   Compare the tradition that in Syracuse it was customary for the countryfolk (agroikoi) to compete in song, and that the victor remained in the city while the others went out to the villages collecting food for themselves and no doubt causing quite a comastic commotion.

   2001, Erich Segal, The Death of Comedy, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 461