A.sleep, slumber, Od.11.245, al. (v. infr.); of the sleep of death, “κοιμήσατο χάλκεον ὕ.” Il.11.241; “Κάλχανθ᾽ ὕ. θανάτοιο κάλυψεν” Hes.Fr.160 codd.Str.; “ὕπνῳ καὶ καμάτῳ ἀρημένος” Od.6.2, cf. 12.281; “τάπητες μαλακώτεροι ὕπνω” Theoc.15.125, cf. 5.51.— Special phrases:
I. of going to sleep, “μιν ἐπήλυθε . . ὕ.” Od. 4.793; “ἐπὶ . . ὕ. ὄρουσεν” Il.23.232; “ἱκάνει” 1.610; “ἔχει” 10.4, etc.; “τὸν ὕ. ἔμαρπτε” 23.62, al.; “ᾕρει” 24.4, al.; “λαμβάνει” S.Ph.767; opp. “ὕπνος ἀνῆκέ τινα” Il.2.71, Od.19.551, Pl.Prt.310d: of persons, “ὕπνον ἀωτεῖν” Il.10.159, etc.; “ὕπνου δῶρον ἕλοντο” Od.16.481, etc.; “λαβεῖν” Pl.Smp.223b; “κοιμᾶσθαι” X.Hier.6.7; “ἡδὺν ὕπνον καθεύδειν” Men.Kith.Fr.1.5; “ὕπνου τυχεῖν” Ar.Ach.713; “μικρὸν ὕπνου λαχών” X. An.3.1.11; “ὕπνου λαχεῖν μέρος” Cratin.218; ἐν ὕπνῳ or ὕπνῳ πεσεῖν to fall a-sleep, Pi.I.4(3).23(41), A.Eu.68; “εἰς ὕπνον πεσεῖν” S.Ph.826; οὐχ ὕπνῳ γ᾽ ἐνδόντα (so Badham for εὕδοντά)“ μ᾽ ἐξεγείρετε” Id.OT65; also ὕπνῳ δεδμημένος, δαμείς, Il.10.2, 14.353, etc.; νικώμενος, κρατηθεῖσ᾽, A.Ag.290, Eu.148 (lyr.); “κάτοχος” S.Tr.978 (lyr.); σκεδάσαι . . ἀπὸ βλεφάρων ὕπνον ib.991 (lyr.).
2. of waking from sleep, “ἐγεῖραί τινα ἐξ ὕπνου” Od.15.44, etc.: of the sleeper, “ἀνόρουσε, ἔγρετο, ἐξ ὕ.” Il. 10.162, 2.41; “ἐξ ὕ. στῆναι” S.Ph.277; “ἀπολακτίσασ᾽ ὕπνον” A.Eu.141; “ἀποσείσασθαι” Luc. Tim.6.
3. with Preps., when the pl. also is not uncommon, ἐν ὕπνῳ in sleep, in a dream, E.IT44, Pl.R.476c; ἐν τοῖς ὕ. ib.572b, Sph.266b, Isoc.9.21, PCair.Zen.34.5 (iii B.C.); “καθ᾽ ὕπνον ὄντα” S.Tr.970 (lyr.), cf. Pl.Lg.800a; καθ᾽ ὕπνον, κατὰ τοὺς ὕπνους, Plu.2.717e,555b, Alex.50; περὶ πρῶτον ὕ. about one's first sleep, Ar.V.31, Th.2.2; “περὶ πρώτους ὕ.” Eub.13; “ἀπὸ πρώτου ὕ.” Th.7.43; “διὰ μέσων τῶν ὕ.” Plu.Them.28; “ἐκ τῶν ὕ. ἐγείρεσθαι” Pl.R.330e: pl., dreams, “ὕ. ἀγένητοι” Phld.D.1.22.