Ὄνειρον
dream
Translated by Ioannis Doukas28 Aug 2007Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[A dream] differs from a vision-in-sleep [e)nu/pnion ];1 for it is something else and not the same. And yet calling a dream a vision-in-sleep would be fine; but when someone speaks technically, he must use each word in its proper sense, and the one [which is] unimportant and does not foretell anything, being powerful only during sleep, and coming into being because of an irrational desire or an exceeding fear or satiety or poverty, must be called e)nu/pnion , whereas the other which is still effective and probable after the sleep is a good or bad dream. In many cases [sc. both of] the nouns must be used, just as Homer [says]: "a dream from heaven came to me in my sleep".2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὄνειρον ἐνυπνίου διαφέρει· ἕτερον γάρ ἐστι καὶ οὐ ταὐτό. ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ὄνειρον καὶ ἐνύπνιον καλῶς εἴποι τις ἄν· ὅταν δὲ τεχνικῶς λέγῃ τις, κυρίως ἕκαστον χρὴ καλεῖν, καὶ τὸ μὲν ἀσήμαντον καὶ οὐδενὸς προαγορευτικόν, ἀλλ' ἐν μόνῳ τῷ ὕπνῳ τὴν δύναμιν ἔχον, γινόμενον δὲ ἐξ ἐπιθυμίας ἀλόγου ἢ ὑπερβάλλοντος φόβου ἢ πλησμονῆς ἢ ἐνδείας, ἐνύπνιον χρὴ καλεῖν, τὸ δὲ μετὰ τὸν ὕπνον ἐνέργεια ὂν καὶ ἀποβησόμενόν ἐστιν ἀγαθὸν ἢ κακὸν ὄνειρον. πολλάκις δὲ καταχρηστέον τοῖς ὀνόμασιν, ὡς καὶ Ὅμηρος· θεῖός μοι ἐνύπνιον ἦλθεν ὄνειρος.
Betacode
*)/oneiron e)nupni/ou diafe/rei: e(/teron ga/r e)sti kai\ ou) tau)to/. a)lla\ kai\ to\ o)/neiron kai\ e)nu/pnion kalw=s ei)/poi tis a)/n: o(/tan de\ texnikw=s le/gh| tis, kuri/ws e(/kaston xrh\ kalei=n, kai\ to\ me\n a)sh/manton kai\ ou)deno\s proagoreutiko/n, a)ll' e)n mo/nw| tw=| u(/pnw| th\n du/namin e)/xon, gino/menon de\ e)c e)piqumi/as a)lo/gou h)\ u(perba/llontos fo/bou h)\ plhsmonh=s h)\ e)ndei/as, e)nu/pnion xrh\ kalei=n, to\ de\ meta\ to\n u(/pnon e)ne/rgeia o)\n kai\ a)pobhso/meno/n e)stin a)gaqo\n h)\ kako\n o)/neiron. polla/kis de\ kataxrhste/on toi=s o)no/masin, w(s kai\ *(/omhros: qei=o/s moi e)nu/pnion h)=lqen o)/neiros.
Notes (2)
- From Artemidorus, Onirocriticon, prologue to book 4.
- 1On
e)nu/pnion see epsilon 1503, iota 165; also delta 410, kappa 1086, omicron 346, omicron 349 and omicron 350; cf. Orion [Author, Myth], Hesychius, Etymologicum Gudianum and Etymologicum Magnum s.v. ↩ - 2Homer, Iliad 2.56 (web address 1) and Odyssey 14.495 (web address 2); see also the corresponding scholia. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 19 May 2016
- codings — David Whitehead
- more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- upgraded links — Catharine Roth
- tweaks and cosmetics; supplied primary note — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ioannis Doukas