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- mythology, Somnus ("sleep") is the personification of sleep. His Gr**** counterpart is Hypnos. Somnus resided in the underworld. According to Virgil, Somnus was...
- 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...
- ****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...
- Somnophilia (from Latin somnus "sleep" and Gr**** φιλία, -philia "friendship") is a paraphilia in which an individual becomes ****ually aroused by someone...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 traumatic...
- Tripp, s.v. Somnus, p. 534; Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.638–641. Griffin, p. 249; Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.635–643. Griffin, p. 249. Tripp, s.v. Somnus, p. 534....
- Additionally, Ovid wrote that Mercury carried Morpheus's dreams from the valley of Somnus to sleeping humans. Archeological evidence from Pompeii suggests that Mercury...