comissabundus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

cōmissābundus (cōmess-), a, um, adj. [comissor],

holding a riotous procession , revelling , banqueting , carousing : comissabundus temulento agmine per Indiam incessit (Alexander Magnus; in regard to his imitation of the procession in honor of Bacchus through Asia; v. Curt. 9, 10, 26), Liv. 9, 17, 17; Curt. 5, 7, 10; 9, 10, 26: ubi (Athenis) comissabundi juvenes ante meridiem conventus sapientium frequentabant, decorated , crowned , etc., for a procession , Plin. 21, 3, 6, § 9.

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