Sómnio, sómnias, somniâre. Terent. Mortuum esse somniare Cic. Somniare aliquem. Terenn To dreame of one.Somniare ineptias. Colum. Somniari, Impersonale. Plinius. PlurimÛ somniari cir ca Vernum & Autumnum tradunt. That men dreame moste, &c.Só nnians, Particip.Cic.Dreaming.
Somnium, oij. n. g Cic.A dreame: a vision in ones sleepe.Aegri somnia. Horat. Vigilantium velut quædam somnia. Quint. Admonitio in somnijs.Cic. Cõcursatio somniorum, Cic.Coniector somniorum.Cic.An interpretour of dreames.Somniorum interpres vaferrimus Chrysippus.Cic.Ratio somniorum.Cic. Crudelia somnia. Tibull. Nigra. Tibull. Dira. Valer. Flac. Nocturna. Horat. Lymphatica. Plin. Sæua. Sen. Sollicitum somnium. Sen. A dreame making the partie carefull and heauie.Tristia somnia.Virg. Vaga. Stat.Tumoltuosa. Plin. Troublous dreames.Vera. Horat. Cernere somnia. Lucret. To see vistons in dreames.Alicui enarrare somnium.Cic.Explicare interpretatione somnia.Cic.Fingere somnia.Virg.Interpretari somnium.Cic.Pertinet somnium ad hoc. Vide PERTINEO. Videre somnia.Ouid.Vti somnijs iucundissimis. Ci. To haue pleasant dreames. Somnium.Terent.A vaine trifle not like to be true.De argento, Somnium.Terent.As touching my money, he maketh no more accompt than if it were a dreame.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
somnĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (dep. collat. form: hic aedes non somniatur, Petr. 74, 14) [somnium], to dream; to dream of or see in a dream (freq. and class.). I.Lit.: mirum atque inscitum somniavi somnium, Plaut. Rud. 3, 1, 5; so, somnium, id. Mil. 2, 4, 28; 2, 4, 47: aliquid (in somnis), id. Rud. 3, 4, 68; id. Curc. 2, 1, 32; 2, 2, 4; Ter. And. 5, 6, 7; Cic. Div. 2, 59, 121 al.; cf. aurum, Plaut. Stich. 5, 2, 18: ovum, Cic. Div. 2, 65, 134: speciem fortunae querentis, Suet. Galb. 18 al.; cf.: me somnies, me exspectes, de me cogites, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 114.— With obj.-clause: videbar somniare med ego esse mortuum, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 16, 51 (Epich. v. 1, p. 167 Vahl.); Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 39; Cic. Div. 1, 20, 39; 2, 65, 134init.; Suet. Aug. 91; 94; id. Claud. 37 al.—With de: hanc credo causam de illo somniandi fuisse, Cic. Div. 2, 67, 140: puer, de quo somniasset, Suet. Aug. 94.—Absol.: totas noctes somniamus, Cic. Div. 2, 59, 121; id. Ac. 2, 16, 51; Plin. 10, 75, 98, 211; Suet. Ner. 46 al.—Impers. pass.: Aristoteles et Fabianus plurimum somniari circa ver et auctumnum tradunt, Plin. 28, 4, 14, 54. —II.Transf., as in Engl. to dream, i. e. to think idly or vainly, to talk foolishly: eho, quae tu somnias! Hic homo non sanus est,
what are you dreaming about?
Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 109: quos Summanos somnias?id. Curc. 4, 3, 14: de Lanuvino Phameae erravi; Trojanum somniabam, Cic. Att. 9, 13, 6: ineptias, Col. 1, 8, 2: ah stulte! tu de Psaltriā me somnias Agere, Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 6; Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 5.—Absol.: vigilans somniat, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 65; id. Capt. 4, 2, 68: portenta non disserentium philosophorum sed somniantium, Cic. N. D. 1, 8, 18.
, Lucr. 5, 1158; cf.: quae somnio visa fuerant, Liv. 8, 6, 11 Weissenb.—B. Personified: Somnia, dreams, as divinities, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44; Ov. M. 11, 588; 11, 614 sq—II.Transf.A. For any thing idle, silly, or without foundation (cf. somnio, II.), a dream, an idle whim or fancy, stuff, nonsense: tu, quantus quantus, nihil nisi sapientia es: Ille somnium, Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 41: de argento, somnium, id. ib. 2, 1, 50; id. Phorm. 5, 6, 34.—Plur.: fabulae! ... logi! ... somnia!Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 9: et vigilans stertis nec somnia cernere cessas,
visions
, Lucr. 3, 1048; cf. id. 1, 105: spes inanes et velut somnia quaedam vigilantium, Quint. 6, 2, 30: exposui fere non philosophorum judicia, sed delirantium somnia, Cic. N. D. 1, 16, 42: Chrysippus Stoicorum somniorum vaferrimus interpres, id. ib. 1, 15, 39: leviter curare videtur, Quo promissa cadant et somnia Pythagorea, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 52.—B.Poet.: Somnus, tibi somnia tristia portans, i. e.