Comus

Comus, in later antiquity, a divinity of festive mirth and joy, represented as a winged youth, sometimes drunk and languid as after a debauch, or slumbering in a standing posture with legs crossed. Comus thus became the representative deity of riotous merry-making, of tipsy dance and jollity, and as such figures in Milton's noble poetic tribute to chastity, the mask of Comus; though here the poet, as elsewhere, has devised his own mythology, and made him the child of Bacchus and of Circe, 'much like his father, but his mother more.'