Brewer's: Comus

God of revelry. Milton represents him as a male Circe. (Greek, komos, carousal.)

This nymph [Circe], that gazed upon his [Bacchus's] clustering locks,  ... Had by him, ere he parted thence, a son, Much like his father, but his mother more, Whom therefore she brought up, and Comus named.

Milton: Comus, 54-58.

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