- mythology,
Somnus ("sleep") is the
personification of sleep. His Gr****
counterpart is Hypnos.
Somnus resided in the underworld.
According to Virgil,
Somnus was...
- ****ociated with
sleep and dreams. In Ovid's
Metamorphoses he is the son of
Somnus and
appears in
dreams in
human form. From the
Middle Ages, the name began...
-
United States. It was
later named after the
twins Mors and
Somnus from
Roman mythology. Mors–
Somnus is a
small double plutino occupying the 3:2 mean motion...
- Hypnus, is the
personification of sleep; the
Roman equivalent is
known as
Somnus. His name is the
origin of the word hypnosis.
Pausanias wrote that Hypnos...
-
Somnus was not a pure "speed horse" and ran only once, unsuccessfully, at five furlongs: all his
victories came over six or
seven furlongs.
Somnus, a...
-
Somnophilia (from
Latin somnus "sleep" and Gr**** φιλία, -philia "friendship") is a
paraphilia in
which an
individual becomes ****ually
aroused by someone...
-
psychic attack from
Somnus. As it
turns out, her
awakened empathy never struck a
change in her ****ic traits, so Kate,
Somnus, and Emma had planned...
- sons that the
Latin poet Ovid gave to
Somnus (Sleep), who
appear in dreams. Ovid
named three of the sons of
Somnus: Morpheus, who
appears in
human guise...
- sopor. The name is
derived from
Latin sopor (cognate with the
Latin noun
somnus and the Gr**** noun ὐπνος, hypnos).
Soporous states can be
caused by traumatic...
- Additionally, Ovid
wrote that
Mercury carried Morpheus's
dreams from the
valley of
Somnus to
sleeping humans.
Archeological evidence from
Pompeii suggests that Mercury...
