Somnus
Americannoun
noun
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She summoned her messenger Iris and ordered her to go to the house of Somnus, God of Sleep, and bid him send a dream to Alcyone to tell her the truth about Ceyx.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
To bed we go, and Somnus touches our eyes with his wand of poppies.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord
Somnus descends smiling to his nocturnal pillow, and not clad in the portentous panoply of indigestion, which rivals a guilty conscience in its night visions.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various
The palace of Somnus was a dark cave, where the god lies asleep on a bed of feathers.
From Heathen Mythology by Various
The sun maid, 7, 330; death of, 331, 337; compared, 345 Somnus.
From Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
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