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Comus (kō`məs), in late Roman legend, god of mirth and revelry. A follower of Dionysus, he was represented as a drunken youth bearing a torch. In Milton's poetic masque, Comus, he is the mischievous son of Bacchus and Circe.

Comus

hard-drinking god of festive mirth; whence, comic. [Gk. Myth.: Espy, 31]

See : Revelry

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