ὄνᾰρ, τό,
used only in nominative and accusative singular, the other cases being supplied by ὄνειρος (which see):— dream, vision in sleep, opposed to a waking vision, οὐκ ὄ., ἀλλ᾽ ὕπαρ ἐσθλόν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.547, compare 20.90; ἡλίῳ δείκνυσι τοὔναρ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 425; εἶδον ὄ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1090 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄκουε δὴ ὄ. ἀντὶ ὀνείρατος dream for dream, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 201d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὥστε μηδὲ ὄ. ἰδεῖν, of profound sleep, [[ [prev. author] “Ap.” 40d: proverbial, τὸ ἐμόν γ᾽ ἐμοὶ λέγεις ὄ.] Refs] 'you are telling me what I know already', [[ [prev. author] “R.” 563d, compare 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus see {ταὐτὸν πέπονθα} compare (ὄνειρος 1, ὄνειαρ II). ] Refs]
__2 proverbial of anything fleeting or unreal, ὀλιγοχρόνιον.. ὥσπερ ὄ. [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1020; σε παρέρχεται ὡς ὄ. ἥβη 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 27.8; πόθος δέ μοι ὡς ὄ. ἔπτα 2nd c.BC: Bion Bucolicus 1.58: in Prose, ἡ ἐμὴ [σοφία].., ὥσπερ ὄ. οὖσα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 175e, compare “Men.” 85c; ὡς ὄ. ἐλευθερίας ὁρῶντας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Theseus” 32; and without ὡς, σκιᾶς ὄ. ἄνθρωπος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.95 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ὄ. ἡμερόφαντον ἀλαίνει, of an old man, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 82 (_anapaest meter_). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II in Trag. and Attic dialect frequently as adverb, in a dream, in sleep, ὄ. γὰρ ὑμᾶς νῦν Κλυταιμνήστρα καλῶ [[ [prev. author] “Eu.” 116 ] Refs]; ὄ. διώκεις θῆρα[[ [prev. work] 131; ὄ. πνεύσαντα νυκτός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 65: frequently in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus, ὄ. ἐπλουτήσαμεν “Tht.” 208b; ὄ. ὀνείρατα διηγεῖσθαι [prev. work] 158c ] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; also οὐδ᾽ ὄ. not even in a dream, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 107, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 1.11; πολιτικὸς ἀνὴρ οὐδ᾽ ὄ. 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 1.18.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μηδ᾽ ἰδὼν ὄ. not even in my dreams, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 518, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 173d, 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 4.18; ἃ μηδ᾽ ὄ. ἤλπισαν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.275: hence frequently opposed to ὕπαρ, see.{ὕπαρ}] Refs 5th c.BC+] 11; κατ᾽ ὄναρ in a dream, condemned by [[ 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 395, but quoted by him from Polemo, is also found in NT.Matt.1.20, 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “Orationes” 47(23).21 ] NT+2nd c.AD+]: with sense, in consequence of a dream, in [[ “SIG” 1147 (Crete, 2nd-3rd c.AD), “Supp.epigram” 2.405 (from Macedonia). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]