ὕπνος

• sleep, slumber, Od. 11.245, al. (v. infr.); of the sleep of death, κοιμήσατο χάλκεον ὕ. Il. 11.241; Κάλχανθʼ ὕ. θανάτοιο κάλυψεν Hes. Fr. 160 codd. Str.; ὕπνῳ καὶ καμάτῳ ἀρημένος Od. 6.2, cf. 12.281; τάπητες μαλακώτεροι ὕπνω Theoc. 15.125, cf. 5.51.— Special phrases:
• • I of going to sleep, μιν ἐπήλυθε . . ὕ. Od. 4.793; ἐπὶ . . ὕ. ὄρουσεν Il. 23.232; ἱκάνει 1.610; ἔχει 10.4, etc.; τὸν ὕ. ἔμαρπτε 23.62, al.; ᾕρει 24.4, al.; λαμβάνει S. Ph. 767; opp. ὕπνος ἀνῆκέ τινα Il. 2.71, Od. 19.551, Pl. Prt. 310d: of persons, ὕπνον ἀωτεῖν Il. 10.159, etc.; ὕπνου δῶρον ἕλοντο Od. 16.481, etc.; λαβεῖν Pl. Smp. 223b; κοιμᾶσθαι X. Hier. 6.7; ἡδὺν ὕπνον καθεύδειν Men. Kith.Fr. 1.5; ὕπνου τυχεῖν Ar. Ach. 713; μικρὸν ὕπνου λαχών X. An. 3.1.11; ὕπνου λαχεῖν μέρος Cratin. 218; ἐν ὕπνῳ or ὕπνῳ πεσεῖν to fall a-sleep, Pi. I. 4(3).23(41), A. Eu. 68; εἰς ὕπνον πεσεῖν S. Ph. 826; οὐχ ὕπνῳ γʼ ἐνδόντα (so Badham for εὕδοντά) μʼ ἐξεγείρετε Id. OT 65; also ὕπνῳ δεδμημένος, δαμείς, Il. 10.2, 14.353, etc.; νικώμενος, κρατηθεῖσʼ, A. Ag. 290, Eu. 148 (lyr.); κάτοχος S. Tr. 978 (lyr.); σκεδάσαι . . ἀπὸ βλεφάρων ὕπνον ib. 991 (lyr.).
  • • 2 of waking from sleep, ἐγεῖραί τινα ἐξ ὕπνου Od. 15.44, etc.: of the sleeper, ἀνόρουσε, ἔγρετο, ἐξ ὕ. Il. 10.162, 2.41; ἐξ ὕ. στῆναι S. Ph. 277; ἀπολακτίσασʼ ὕπνον A. Eu. 141; ἀποσείσασθαι Luc. Tim. 6.
    • 3 with Preps., when the pl. also is not uncommon, ἐν ὕπνῳ in sleep, in a dream, E. IT 44, Pl. R. 476c; ἐν τοῖς ὕ. ib. 572b, Sph. 266b, Isoc. 9.21, PCair.Zen. 34.5 (iii B.C.); καθʼ ὕπνον ὄντα S. Tr. 970 (lyr.), cf. Pl. Lg. 800a; καθʼ ὕπνον, κατὰ τοὺς ὕπνους, Plu. QConv. 2.717e,Vind. 555b, Alex. 50; περὶ πρῶτον ὕ. about oneʼs first sleep, Ar. V. 31, Th. 2.2; περὶ πρώτους ὕ. Eub. 13; ἀπὸ πρώτου ὕ. Th. 7.43; διὰ μέσων τῶν ὕ. Plu. Them. 28; ἐκ τῶν ὕ. ἐγείρεσθαι Pl. R. 330e: pl., dreams, ὕ. ἀγένητοι Phld. D. 1.22.
  • II Sleep, as a god, twinbrother of Death, Il. 14.231, 16.672, 682; acc. to Hes. Th. 212, son of Night without father. [ῠ by nature, A. Th. 3, Ag. 14, 912, etc.; ῡ by position in Ep., etc.] (Cf. Skt. svápati ‘sleep’, Subst. svápnas ‘sleep, dreamʼ; Lat. somnus, sopor, etc.)

-ου, ὁ.

• • 1

    Sleep Il. 1.610, Il. 2.2, Il. 5.413, Il. 13.636, Il. 22.502, etc.: Od. 1.363, Od. 2.398, Od. 4.105, Od. 7.318, Od. 9.372, etc.

    Personified Il. 14.231, 233, 242, 264, 270, 286, 354, Il. 16.454, 672 = 682.

  • 2

    Oppression caused by lack of sleep, heaviness, drowsiness: καμάτῳ ἀδηκότες ἠδὲ καὶ ὑπνῳ Il. 10.98. Cf. Od. 6.2, Od. 12.281.

• 1sleep τὸν δὲ σύγκοιτον γλυκὺν παῦρον ἐπὶ γλεφάροις ὕπνον ἀναλίσκοισα ῥέποντα πρὸς ἀῶ P. 9.25 met., ἐν ὕπνῳ γὰρ πέσεν (sc. φάμα παλαιά) I. 4.23

• • Isleep, slumber, Hom., etc.; χάλκεος ὕπνος, i. e. the sleep of death, Il.:— ὕπνος τινὰ ἐπέρχεται, ἐπορούει, ἱκάνει, αἱρεῖ, λαμβάνει Hom., etc.; εἰς ὕπνον πεσεῖν Soph.:— ἐν ὕπνῳ in sleep, Eur.;— καθʼ ὕπνον Soph.;— περὶ πρῶτον ὕπνον about oneʼs first sleep, Ar.
  • IISleep, twin-brother of Death, Il.