soporus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

sŏpōrus, a, um, adj. [sopor] (poet.), of or belonging to sleep, i. e.,

I Sleep-bringing , causing sleep : Nox, Verg. A. 6, 390; Luc. 2, 236; Stat. Th. 1, 403: soporae pennae (Somni), Sil. 10, 354: amnis, i. e. Lethe, id. 13, 856.—

II Heavy with sleep , drowsy , dozy : dapibus vinoque soporus, Val. Fl. 2, 222.

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