ὄναρ: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, used only in nom. and acc. sg., the other cases being supplied by [[ὄνειρος]] ([[quod vide|q.v.]]) :—<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[dream]], [[vision in sleep]], opp. a waking vision, οὐκ ὄ., ἀλλ' ὕπαρ ἐσθλόν <span class="bibl">Od.19.547</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">20.90</span>; ἡλίῳ δείκνυσι τοὔναρ <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>425</span>; εἶδον ὄ. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>1090</span>; <b class="b3">ἄκουε δὴ ὄ. ἀντὶ ὀνείρατος</b> [[dream]] for dream, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>201d</span>; <b class="b3">ὥστε μηδὲ ὄ. ἰδεῖν</b>, of profound sleep, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ap.</span> 40d</span> : [[proverb|prov.]], <b class="b3">τὸ ἐμόν γ' ἐμοὶ λέγεις ὄ</b>. 'you are telling me what I know already', <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">R.</span>563d</span>, cf. Suid. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[ταὐτὸν πέπονθα]] (cf. [[ὄνειρος]] ''1'', [[ὄνειαρ]] II). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[proverb|prov.]] of anything fleeting or unreal, ὀλιγοχρόνιον . . ὥσπερ ὄ. <span class="bibl">Thgn.1020</span>; σε παρέρχεται ὡς ὄ. ἥβη <span class="bibl">Theoc.27.8</span>; πόθος δέ μοι ὡς ὄ. ἔπτα <span class="bibl">Bion 1.58</span> : in Prose, ἡ ἐμὴ [σοφία]... ὥσπερ ὄ. οὖσα <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Smp.</span>175e</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Men.</span>85c</span>; ὡς ὄ. ἐλευθερίας ὁρῶντας <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Thes.</span>32</span>; and without ὡς, σκιᾶς ὄ. ἄνθρωπος <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>8.95</span>; <b class="b3">ὄ. ἡμερόφαντον ἀλαίνει</b>, of an old man, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>82</span> (anap.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> in Trag. and Att. freq. as adverb, [[in a dream]], [[in sleep]], ὄ. γὰρ ὑμᾶς νῦν Κλυταιμνήστρα καλῶ <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Eu.</span>116</span>; <b class="b3">ὄ. διώκεις θῆρα</b> ib.<span class="bibl">131</span>; ὄ. πνεύσαντα νυκτός <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>65</span> : freq. in Pl., ὄ. ἐπλουτήσαμεν <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Tht.</span>208b</span>; <b class="b3">ὄ. ὀνείρατα διηγεῖσθαι</b> ib.<span class="bibl">158c</span>, etc.; also <b class="b3">οὐδ' ὄ</b>. not even [[in a dream]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>107</span>, <span class="bibl">Herod.1.11</span>; πολιτικὸς ἀνὴρ οὐδ' ὄ. <span class="bibl">Cic.<span class="title">Att.</span>1.18.6</span>; <b class="b3">μηδ' ἰδὼν ὄ</b>. not even [[in my dreams]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IT</span>518</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Tht.</span>173d</span>, <span class="bibl">Mosch.4.18</span>; ἃ μηδ' ὄ. ἤλπισαν <span class="bibl">D.19.275</span> : hence freq. opp. [[ὕπαρ]], v. [[ὕπαρ]] 11; <b class="b3">κατ' ὄναρ</b> [[in a dream]], condemned by Phryn.395, but quoted by him from Polemo, is also found in <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Matt.</span>1.20</span>, <span class="bibl">Aristid. <span class="title">Or.</span>47(23).21</span> : with sense, [[in consequence of a dream]], in <span class="title">SIG</span>1147 (Crete, ii/iii A. D.), <span class="title">Supp.Epigr.</span>2.405 (Macedonia).</span>