komasts

Noun

komast (plural komasts)

1. A drunken reveller, especially as depicted in Ancient Greek art.
   • The triple repetition of the god's name has a hymnic effect and so in form as well as function these lines are a modification of the standard appeal of the komast to a divinity for help.1979, David West, Tony Woodman, Creative Imitation and Latin Literature, Cambridge University Press, published 2001, page 55