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...

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...

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

sopor. The name is derived from Latin sopor (cognate with the Latin noun somnus and the Greek noun ὐπνος, hypnos). Soporous states can be caused by traumatic...

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...

prepare itself to rest. The word "somnolence" is derived from the Latin "somnus" meaning "sleep". Circadian rhythm ("biological clock") disorders are a...

the United States, but it reads "carcass" instead of "annuit coeptis", "somnus pecunia cibus" instead of "novus ordo seclorum" and "MCMXCV" instead of...

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