κώμη, ἡ,
unwalled village, opposed to fortified city (said to be Doric dialect = Attic dialect δῆμος, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1448a36, compare κωμῳδία), 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 18, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.98 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to πόλις, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 626c; κατοικῆσθαι κατὰ κώμας 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.96 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόλεσιν ἀτειχίστοις καὶ κατὰ κ. οἰκουμέναις formed of scattered villages, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.5; πόλεως.. κατὰ κ. τῷ παλαιῷ τῆς Ἑλλάδος τρόπῳ οἰκισθείσης [prev. work] 10, compare 3.94; διοικίζεσθαι κατὰ κώμας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.2.5; κατὰ κ. κεχωρισμένοι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1261a28. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II quarter, ward of a city, διελόμενοι τὴν μὲν πόλιν κατὰ κώμας, τὴν δὲ χώραν κατὰ δήμους [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 7.46, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 746d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]