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.

I. Lit., a dream, Cic. Div. 1, 20, 39; 2, 58, 119; Plin. 10, 75, 98, 211; Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 3; Lact. Opif. Dei, 18: rex Priamus somnio perculsus, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 21, 42 (Trag. v. 59 Vahl.): dum huic conicio somnium, interpret, Plaut. Curc. 2, 2, 3; cf. id. Rud. 3, 1, 19: interpretes somniorum, Cic. Div. 1, 58, 132: jucundissima somnia, id. Fin. 5, 20, 55: per somnia loquentes, talking in their sleep, 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. fatal sleep, Verg. A. 5, 840.