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.
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.