comissatio
comissatio, a Bacchanalian revel, revelry
- a Bacchanalian revel, and the succeeding nocturnal procession with torches and music, a revelling, rioting, Cic. Mur. 6, 13; Liv. 40, 13, 3; Suet. Calig. 55; Mart. 12, 48, 11; Gell. 1, 9, 9.—In plur., Cic. Cael. 15, 35; id. Cat. 2, 5, 10; Varr. L. L. 7, § 89 Müll.; Liv. 1, 57, 5; Suet. Vit. 13; id. Tit. 7; Sen. Ben. 6, 32, 1; id. Cons. ad Helv. 10, 9; id. Ep. 51, 1.—The tropes tempestas comissationis and comissatio tempestatis are censured, the former as too bold and the latter as too feeble, by Cic., de Or. 3, 41, 164.
comesatio, convivio [sic ] meretricum
domunculae quae ad orandum‥factae erant nunc in ~onum‥et ceterarum sunt inlecebrarum cubilia conversae
absconditas ~ones‥vitae
comesationibus,oferætum
fornicationes, ‥ebrietates, comesationes [(cf. ] ‥ ceteraeque pestes quae ad interitum hominem pertrahuntGal. v 21
non mirum fuit si ~onum complices facti sunt abstinentes
conficiamus‥delicatas ~ones
precipimus quod matrimonia cum honore celebrentur et reverentia,‥non in tabernis, potationibus publicis seu ~onibus
Christiani et Judei vicissim in domibus propriis conveniunt et, dum simul ~onibus et potacionibus vacant, erroris materia preparatur
est ~o superflua convivatio
‘ut nec monachi nec canonici regulares, nisi horis statutis, potacioni aut ~oni vacare presumant’, quia clericis et religiosis omnino prohibetur. ‥et dicitur ‘~o’ frequens et voluptuosa comestio, secundum Januensem
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- comissor, a Bacchanalian revel, revelry, C., L.
COMISSA´TIO(derived from κῶμος, according to Varr. de Ling. Lat. 7.89, but more exactly from κωμάζειν, comissari: Roby, Lat. Gr. § 189, 2.3), the name of a drinking entertainment, which took place after the CENAfrom which, however, it must be distinguished. Thus Demetrius says to his guests, after they had dined in his own house, Quin comissatum ad fratrem imus? (Liv. 40.7, 5); and when Habinnas comes to Trimalchio's house after taking his cena elsewhere, it is said that Comissator intravit (Petron. 65). It appears to have been the custom to partake of some food at the comissatio (Suet. Vitell. 13), but usually only as a kind of relish to the wine.
The comissatio was frequently prolonged to a late hour at night (Suet. Tit. 7); whence the verb comissari means to revel (Hor. Carm. 4.1, 11), and the substantive comissator a reveller or debauchee. Hence Cicero (ad Att. 1.16) calls the supporters of Catiline's conspiracy comissatores conjurationis. (Becker-Göll, Gallus, 1. p. 203.)
[W.S] [A.S.W](from κῶμος or κωμάζω, comissari). A drinking-bout following the cena (q. v.), and frequently prolonged into the night. Food was partaken of during the comissatio, but only as a relish for the wine. Cf. Plaut. Most. i. 4; Petron.65; Suet. Tit. 7.