comessatio
Dictionary entries
- Entry →comessatio, comessationis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
carousing, merry-making, feasting, revelry; Bacchanal procession/rioting (L+S);
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...ingesta sunt et distentos copia ferculorum ac uarietate comessatio altius mersit; deinde numquam intermissa intemperantia quicquid animi decoxerat..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...obstreperetur pantomimis, quos imitabatur studiosius quam spectabat, quodque comessatio sua fulminibus terreretur (prorsus parum certis), ad pugnam uocauit..."