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Comus

In late Greek mythology, the god of festive mirth. He is depicted as a sleeping winged youth, crowned with flowers and holding a hunting spear and an inverted torch.

The English poet John Milton in his masque Comus represents him as the offspring of Bacchus and the enchantress Circe, endowed with the power to turn human faces into those of beasts.



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