Coma, comæ. Cic.A bush of haire: the boughes and leaues of trees.Aureæ comæ. Catul. Breuior coma. Sen. Calamistrata. Vide CALAMISTRVM. Cana. Sen. Crispa. Sil. Diuidua.Ouid. Fera. Sen. Flaua. Horat. Flauentes comæ. Ouid.Flexilis coma.Val. Flac. Formosæ comæ. Ouid.Hirsuræ.Ouid. Hirtæ. Sen. Horrentes. Sen. Nulla lege iaceus coma. Sen. Hanging loose about hir shoulders.Intonsa.Cic.Not shauen or notted.Inustæ acn comæ. Vide ACVS. Laceræ comæ. Sen. Læuis coma pectine.Ouid.Smooth with kembing.Lanea coma.Stat.Libera nodo coma. Sen. Not trussed vp.Longæ comæ.Ouid. Madens coma. Cic.Mœstæ squalore comæ. Claud. Mollis coma. Sen. Natiua.Ouid. Odoratæ comæ. Ouid.Populeæ comæ.Ouid.The braunches of poplars.Promissæ.Liu.Long. Recta coma. Sen. Straight haire.Resupinæ comæ.Stat. Rigidæ. Sen. Rutilatæ.Liu.Yealow.Sibila coma.Val. Flac.Blowen with winde.Spissa. Horat. Sparsa. Sil. Splendidæ coreæ senectæ. Sen. White haires.Squalens coma.Stat. Squalida. Sen. Abscissæ comæ.Virg.Arrectæ horrore comæ.Virg.Staring for feare.Astrictæ comæ.Ouid.Attollere comas. Sen. Cinctum esse comis.Ouid.Cogere nodo comas. Sen. To tye vp.Compositæ comæ.Ouid.Trimmed or set in order.Comas comere.Ouid. Comptæ comæ. Horat. Culta coma.Val. Flac.Dressed and trimmed.Decidunt comæ. Horat. Defluxere comæ tactæ medicamine.Ouid.His haire fell.Deprimere comas borrentes. Sen. To kembe downe his staring head.Diffundere comas.Virg.To cast loose.Inornatas comas dilaniata.Ouid.Diriguere comæ.Ouid. Disiecta comas fœmina. Ouid.Effulæ comæ.Ouid.Horror comas erexit.Ouid.Feare made his haire to stare.Exornare comas Sen.To trimme.Expedire comas Stat.To vntie her haire.Exuere comam vittis.Stat.To put of her hairelace or sillet.Fingere comas. Vide paulò pòst Soluere comas. Frangere comam in gradus. Quint. To turne or set the haire in fashion of greeses.Iactæ remerè comæ colla persundunt. Sen. Implicare comam manu.Virg.To wrap his hand in hir haire.Implicare comas sertis. Tib. To set garlands vpon ones head.Intonsa coma. Sen. Inornatæ comæ Ouid.Inuolirant humeris comæ. Horat. Hir haire flyeth about hir shoulders.Inuoluere comam. Sil. To wrappe in.Honor comæ nunquam labentis.Stat.The beautie of a haire neuer falling.Lacerare comas. Sen. To rent or teare.Flamma innoxia lambit comas. Virgil. Softly toucheth his haire.Laniare comas. Lucan. To teare.In parulas luxuriare comas.Ouid.To cast many great braunches.Nectere comam myrto.Ouid.To set on a garland of mirtle.Nexæ comæ.Ouid.Neglecta coma.Ouid. Nigrantes comæ. Sen. Nodare comas. Claud. To tye vp.Nutrire comas.Val. Flac.To crimme or set muth by his bushe: to let grow.Obnubere comas.Stat.Oruare comas fuco. Tibul. To colour.Pectere comas.Ouid. Permulcere comas. Ouid.Ponere comas in statione.Ouid.To lay in order.Ephebi nondum posicis comis. Sen. Premunt virtæ comam. Sen. The flillet fastenerh.Preslare comas.Stat. Prominer coma in vultus. Ouid.Radiante coma surgit Titan. Sen With glistering beames.Raprari comis.Ouid.To be rawne by the haire.Reco. npositæ comæ. Ouid.Reddita comis lua cura.Val. Flac.Religare comam. Horat. To binde vp.Renodare comam. Horat. Rigent comæ terrore.Ouid. Ruptæ comæ. Ouid.Scissa coma.Virg.Soluere comas, & Fingere comas, id est componere, contraria. Sen. To vndoe, and to dresse vp the haire.Sparguntur comæ per caput.Ouid.Steterunt comæ.Virg.Stared: stoode an ende.Stringere comas vittis.Virg.To tye or trusse vp.Ligatas comas auro substringere. Lucan. Succincta comas, hirsutáque vertice pinus.Ouid.Tonsa coma.Virg.Notted. Trahere alicui comam. Virg.Variare comas positu.Ouid. Velare comas. Virg.Velatæ comæ.Virg. Vincti comas fronde. Horat. Coma per metaphoram etiam de arboribus, fruticibus, arundinibus, atque etiam herbis dicitur. Plin. The brasiches and leaues of trees or hearbes.Arborum comæ. Horat. Arboreæ comæ Ouid.Nemorum comæ. Horat. The braunches.Papauereæ comæ.Ouid.The braunches of popie.Decutere comas. Virgil. To make leaues fall of trees: to make-bare.Posuit atbor comas.Virg.The leaues be fallen.Comam recidunt syluis hyemes. Sen. Winter maketh the leaues fall from the trees.Comam reuocat syluis æstas. Sen. Summer bringeth leaues of trees againe.Tonsa comas arbos.Ouid.A tree lopped.Tremefacta coma arboris concuslæ.Virg.
Come, Herba. Plin. An hearbe called goates beard.
Como, comis. Cic. Vide COMA.
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cŏma, ae, f., = ko/mh, the hair of the head (hence barba comaeque, Ov. M. 7, 288), considered as an ornament for the head: comae dicuntur capilli cum aliquā curā compositi, Paul. ex Fest. p. 63, 13 Müll. (class., esp. in poetry and post-Aug. prose; very rare in Cic.).—With adj.: unguentis effluens calamistrata coma, Cic. Sest. 8, 18: madens, id. post Red. in Sen. 6, 13: fulva, canqh/, Prop. 2, 2, 5: flava, Hor. C. 1, 5, 4; Tib. 1, 5, 44: myrtea, id. 3, 4, 28: longa, Hor. Epod. 11, 28: nitidae, Prop. 3 (4), 10, 14; cf.: spissā te nitidum. Hor. C. 3, 19, 25: odorata, Ov. A. A. 2, 734; cf. ambrosiae, Verg. A. 1, 403: cana, Tib. 1, 6, 86: virides Nereidum, Hor. C. 3, 28, 10: regia (of Berenice), Cat. 66, 93: ventis horrida facta, Tib. 1, 9, 14; cf.: dare diffundere ventis, Verg. A. 1, 319. —With verb: deciderint comae, Hor. C. 4, 10, 3: ne comae turbarentur, quas componi post paulum vetuit. Quint. 11, 3, 148: componere, Ov. H. 12, 156: comere, id. ib. 21, 88; cf.: inustas comere acu, Quint. 2, 5, 12: pectere, Ov. H. 13, 39: in gradus frangere, Quint. 1, 6, 44; cf.: formare in gradum, Suet. Ner. 51: longam renodare, Hor. Epod. 11, 28; cf. id. C. 2, 11, 24: positu variare, Ov. M. 2, 412; cf. ponere, id. F. 1, 406: componere, id. R. Am. 679: rutilare et summittere (after the manner of the Germans), Suet. Calig. 47: sertis implicare, Tib. 3, 6, 64: Delphicā lauro cingere, Hor. C. 3, 30, 16; cf. in a Gr. constr.: fronde comas vincti, id. Ep. 2, 1, 110: scindens dolore intonsam comam, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 62 (transl. of Hom. Il. 10, 15).—So of Venus lamenting Adonis: effusā isse comā, Prop. 2 (3), 13, 56; and in a Gr. constr.: scissa comam, Verg. A. 9, 478; cf. Ov. Am. 3, 9, 52; id. H. 12, 63; id. M. 4, 139; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 110.—b. Of animals, of the golden fleece: agnus aureā clarus comā, Att. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 26, 68 (Trag. Rel. v. 211 Rib.); cf. Sen. Herc. Oet. 736.—The mane of lions, Gell. 5, 14, 9; of the horse, Pall. 4, 13, 2.— c.The crest of a helmet, Stat. Th. 8, 389.—II.Transf., of objects resembling the hair in appearance or in ornamental effect; most freq. acc. to a trope common in most languages, of leaves, grass, etc., foliage, ears, grass, and stalks of trees, etc., Cat. 4, 12; Tib. 1, 4, 30; Prop. 3 (4), 16, 28; Hor. C. 1, 21, 5; 4, 3, 11; 4, 7, 2; Tib. 2, 1, 48; Prop. 4 (5), 2, 14; Ov. Am 3, 10, 12; id. F 4, 438; Verg. G. 4, 137; Col. 10, 277, Plin. 13, 4, 7, 30; 18, 7, 10, 53; 19, 6, 32, 102.— b.The wool or hair upon parchment, Tib. 3, 1, 10.—Poet., of the rays of light, Cat. 61, 78; 61, 99; Sen. Oedip. 311; id. Herc. Oet. 727.