Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), O, Onăger, Onīros

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Onīros

（Ὄνειρος). The god of dreams. Dreams dwelt on the shores of the Western Ocean, false dreams coming out of an ivory gate and true dreams from a gate of horn (Odyss. xix. 562; xxiv. 12). Dreams were controlled by Hermes, the god of messages. Ovid calls them the children of Sleep, and names three of them—Morpheus, Icelus (or Phobetor), and Phantasus ( Met. xi. 633). For dream-oracles, see Oracula.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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