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Headword: *)oneiropolei=
Adler number: omicron,346
Translated headword: is dreaming
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he/she/it] is fantasizing.[1]
"So there is no need for the Saracens to dream these things."[2]
There is a difference between o)neiropolei=n and o)neirw/ssein: o)neiropolei=n [is said] in reference to those who see visions in sleep, but o)neirw/ssein [is said in reference] to those who emit semen involuntarily, which happens to those who are seized by love, or who experience this because of foods or the activity of spirits.[3]
Greek Original:
*)oneiropolei=: fanta/zetai. ou) xrew\n ou)=n tau=ta tou\s *sara- khnou\s o)neiropolei=n. *)oneiropolei=n tou= o)neirw/ssein dienh/noxe: to\ me\n o)neiropolei=n e)pi\ tw=n e)nu/pnion o(rw/ntwn, to\ de\ o)neirw/ssein e)pi\ tw=n au)toma/tws gonh\n a)fie/ntwn: o(/per oi( e)rwto/lhptoi pa/sxousin, h)\ a)po\ brwma/twn h)\ a)po\ daimo/nwn e)nergei/as tou=to pa/sxontes.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius omicron335 Theodoridis.The headword -- third person singular, present indicative, of o)neiropole/w -- is taken to be quoted from Aristophanes: see n.3 below.
[2] Part of Menander Protector fr. 9.1 Blockley (100-101); from Roman envoy John's remarks to Chosroes, during the negotiations of 567. John rejected the Persian king's demand that Roman subsidies to the Saracens, begun under Justinian (cf. iota 446 generally), should continue under Justin II (cf. iota 449 generally); cf. Greatrex and Lieu (135). On the Saracens, see generally sigma 112. On John, see alpha 3048 note. On Chosroes, see generally chi 418. See further excerpts from this fragment at alpha 3048, alpha 4374, epsilon 958, iota 449, nu 146, pi 375, and upsilon 69.
[3] From a scholion on Aristophanes, Clouds 15, where Strepsiades says his son "is dreaming horses" (o)neiropolei= i(/ppous): web address 1. See also omicron 350.
References:
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
G. Greatrex and S.N.C. Lieu, eds., The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars. Part II: AD 363-630, (London 2002)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; dreams; economics; food; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; medicine; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 December 2009@02:45:57.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 10 December 2009@03:12:29.
David Whitehead (updated n.2) on 3 January 2012@06:59:00.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 3 July 2013@03:49:48.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2; added bibliography, cross-references, and keywords) on 27 October 2024@12:34:30.

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