mythology, Somnus ("sleep") is the personification of sleep. His Greek counterpart is Hypnos. Somnus resided in the underworld. According to Virgil, Somnus was...

associated 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...

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...

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...

Somnophilia (from Latin somnus "sleep" and Greek φιλία, -philia "friendship") is a paraphilia in which an individual becomes sexually aroused by someone...

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...

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...

Additionally, Ovid wrote that Mercury carried Morpheus's dreams from the valley of Somnus to sleeping humans. Archeological evidence from Pompeii suggests that Mercury...

psychic attack from Somnus. As it turns out, her awakened empathy never struck a change in her sadistic traits, so Kate, Somnus, and Emma had planned...

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....