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ὄναρ

onar

dream, vision in sleep

Appears 28 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

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