DREAM Copy link • DREAM 1. s. somnium (also figuratively “an illusion,” etc.: ☞ insomnium is rare, and found only in the plur., , in classical prose): a vision seen in a dream, species per somnum oblata, or in quiete visa; visus nocturnus: in a dream, per somnum; in somnis; per quietem; in quiete: to have a dream, somniare; speciem videre in quiete: to have pleasant dreams, somniis uti jucundissimis: to have a remarkable dream, mirum somnium somniare: to interpret a dream, somnium interpretari, or conjicere; somnium interpretatione explicare: it seems like a dream, somnio similis res mihi videtur: dreams often come true, multa somnia vera evadunt: anybody appears to me in a dream, imago alicujus in somnio mihi venit: to have a day-dream, vigilantem somniare: to indulge in (day) dreams, somnia sibi fingere (☞ Lucr., 1, 104): to see anything in a dream, aliquid in somnis or in quiete videre: mere dreams! somnia! it is all a dream about the money, de argento somnium: the god of dreams, Morpheus (Μορφεύς; in heathen mythology): one who interprets or explains dreams, somniorum interpres or conjector; also conjector simply; conjectrix (of a female). 2. v. somniare (also figuratively = to have strange or foolish ideas or imaginations): dormitare (only figuratively, to live thoughtlessly or idly): to dream anything or of anything, somniare aliquid or de aliqua re; dormientem videre aliquid animo; videre aliquid in somnis (i. e., to see anything in one’s sleep); also per somnum, or per quietem, or secundum quietem: to dream of anybody, somniare de. aliquo. I dreamed, somniavi; somnium mihi fuit; in somnis visus sum, with infinitive (Vid: Cic., De Divin., 1, 24, 49; Plaut., Cure., 2, 2, 20): people or they dream, somniatur: to dream when one is wide awake, vigilantem somniare: I dreamed a strange dream, mirum somnium somniavi: I never dreamed of that, quod non somniabam: you are dreaming! dormitas! (our “you are asleep!”): what are you dreaming about? quid somnias? (i. e., what idle notion have you got inyour head?) To be sluggish; to dream away one’s hours, agere aetatem desidiose (Lucr., 6, 1129): tempus dormitare in otio (Plaut., Asin., 2, 1, 5).