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| Comus |
(k ´m s) (KEY) , 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. |
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