protract slumber

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somnus, i, m. [Sanscr. svap-nas; Gr. hupnos; som-nus for sop-nus; cf.: sopor, sopio].

Lit., sleep: hostes vino domiti somnoque sepulti, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6 (Ann. v. 291 Vahl.); Lucr. 1, 133: vix aegro cum corde meo me somnus reliquit, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 52 Vahl.); cf., on the contrary: pandite sulti' genas et corde relinquite somnum, id. ap. Fest. p. 343 Müll. (Ann. v. 521 Vahl.):

somnum capere,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 115; cf. Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44:

somnum videre,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 82:

Caninius suo toto consulatu somnum non vidit,

Cic. Fam. 7, 30, 1:

somnum tenere,

id. Brut. 80, 278:

somno se dare,

id. Tusc. 1, 47, 113:

me artior quam solebat somnus complexus est,

id. Rep. 6, 10, 10:

puella somno fessa,

Tib. 1, 3, 88:

somno vincta,

Ov. M. 11, 238; Liv. 5, 44; Suet. Aug. 16:

hos oppressos somno,

Caes. B. C. 2, 38 fin.:

ne me e somno excitetis,

Cic. Rep. 6, 12, 12: so,

ex somno excitare aliquem,

id. Sull. 8, 24:

e somno suscitari,

id. Tusc. 4, 19, 44:

somno solutus sum,

id. Rep. 6, 26, 29:

cum ergo est somno sevocatus animus a societate,

id. Div. 1, 30, 63:

palpebrae somno coniventes,

id. N. D. 2, 57, 143:

somno languidus,

Quint. 4, 2, 106: in somnis aliquid videre, in sleep, in dreams, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 325 Müll. (Ann. v. 228 Vahl.); cf. Plaut. Curc. 2, 2, 10; Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 21, 44; Cic. N. D. 1, 29, 82; id. Div. 1, 24, 49; 1, 25, 44; 1, 53, 121; 2, 70, 144; Verg. A. 2, 270; 4, 466; 4, 557 al.; so,

less freq.: per somnum,

Cic. Div. 2, 11, 27; Liv. 2, 36, 4; Verg. A. 5, 636; and:

per somnos,

Plin. 23, 1, 24, § 49; cf.: ea si cui in somno accidant, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45:

datur in somnum euntibus,

Plin. 26, 8, 47, § 74:

somnum petiere,

Ov. M. 13, 676; Quint. 9, 4, 12:

ducere somnos,

i. e. protract slumber, continue to sleep, Verg. A. 4, 560 (cf.:

trahere quietem,

Prop. 1, 14, 9); so,

educere somnos,

Sil. 11, 405;

but: pocula ducentia somnos,

causing sleep, Hor. Epod. 14, 3:

verba placidos facientia somnos,

Ov. M. 7, 153:

nuces somnum faciunt,

Plin. 23, 8, 75, § 144:

odor somnum gignit,

id. 21, 19, 77, § 132:

somnum parere,

id. 19, 8, 38, § 126:

adferre,

id. 32, 2, 11, § 24:

conciliare (opp. fugare),

id. 14, 18, 22, § 117:

concitare,

id. 20, 17, 73, § 189:

adlicere,

id. 26, 3, 8, § 14:

somnos invitare,

Hor. Epod. 2, 28:

adimere,

id. C. 1, 25, 3:

avertere,

id. S. 1, 5, 15:

rumpere,

Sil. 3, 167:

perturbare,

Quint. 12, 1, 6.— Poet.:

conditque natantia lumina somnus,

Verg. G. 4, 496:

labi ut somnum sensit in artus,

Ov. M. 11, 631:

serpens,

Plin. 7, 24, 24, § 90:

graviore somno premi,

id. 9, 13, 15, § 42:

voltus in somnum cadit,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 1044:

somno cedere,

Val. Fl. 2, 71:

lumina mergere somno,

id. 8, 65:

somnus altus,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 8:

somni faciles,

Ov. H. 11, 29; cf.:

somno mollior herba,

Verg. E. 7, 45:

somni pingues,

Ov. Am. 1, 13, 7; Luc. 10, 354:

plenus,

Cels. 1, 3:

intermissus,

Quint. 10, 6, 1:

lenis et placidus,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 1075:

gravis,

id. ib. 1051:

servus ad somnum,

who keeps watch during one's sleep, Curt. 6, 11, 3.—Personified: Somnus, as a divinity, son of Erebus and Nox, Hyg. Fab. praef.; Verg. A. 5, 838; 6, 390; Ov. M. 11, 586, 11, 593; 11, 623 sq.; Stat. Th. 10, 87; Tib. 2, 1, 90 al.—

Esp., in reproachful sense, sleep, sloth, drowsiness, inactivity, slumber, idleness, etc.: corde relinquite somnum, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 343 Müll. (Ann. v. 521 Vahl.):

dediti ventri ac somno,

Sall. C. 2, 8:

somno et conviviis et delectationi nati,

Cic. Sest. 66, 138: somno et luxu pudendus, Tac. H. 2, 90:

somno indulsit,

id. A. 16, 19:

dediti somno ciboque,

id. G. 15; Vell. 2, 1, 1.—

Poet., transf.

Night:

Libra die somnique pares ubi fecerit horas,

Verg. G. 1, 208; cf. Sil. 3, 200. —

Death (mostly with adjj.):

longus,

Hor. C. 3, 11, 38:

componit lumina somno,

Sil. 5, 529:

niger,

id. 7, 633:

frigidus,

Val. Fl. 3, 178;

SO, SOMNO AETERNO SACRVM,

Inscr. Orell. 4428:

REQVIESCIT IN SOMNO PACIS,

ib. 1121.—

Of a calm at sea:

pigro torpebant aequora somno,

Stat. S. 3, 2, 73:

imbelli recubant litora somno,

id. Th. 3, 256. —

A dream: exterrita somno, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 37 Vahl.):

promissa somni,

Sil. 3, 216.