ὕπνος, ὁ,
sleep, slumber, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; of
the sleep of death, κοιμήσατο χάλκεον ὕ. [
Refs 8th c.BC+] — Special phrases:
I) of going to
sleep, μιν ἐπήλυθε. ὕ. [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν ὕπνῳ or ὕπνῳ πεσεῖν to fall a-
sleep, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐχ ὕπνῳ γ᾽ ἐνδόντα (so Badham for εὕδοντά) μ᾽ ἐξεγείρετε [
Refs]; also ὕπνῳ δεδμημένος, δαμείς, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; νικώμενος, κρατηθεῖσ᾽, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
I.2) of waking from sleep, ἐγεῖραί τινα ἐξ ὕπνου [
Refs 8th c.BC+]: of the sleeper, ἀνόρουσε, ἔγρετο, ἐξ ὕ. [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
I.3) with Preps, when the
plural also is not uncommon, ἐν ὕπνῳ in
sleep, in
a dream, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν τοῖς ὕ.[
Refs 5th c.BC+]; καθ᾽ ὕπνον ὄντα [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; καθ᾽ ὕπνον, κατὰ τοὺς ὕπνους, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]; περὶ πρῶτον ὕ. about one's first
sleep, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
plural,
dreams, ὕ. ἀγένητοι [
Refs 1st c.BC+]
II)
Sleep, as a god, twinbrother of Death, [
Refs 8th c.BC+], son of Night without father. [ῠ by nature, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; ῡ by position in
Epic dialect, etc.] (Cf. Sanskrit
svápati 'sleep',
substantive svápnas 'sleep, dream'; Latin
somnus, sopor, etc.)