Sleep

Role: god · First appears: Fable 97

Life events

• Sleep chooses Morpheus to execute Juno’s command.(Fable97)
  • With: Morpheus
  • “These, Sleep, the aged God, passes by, and selects Morpheus alone from all his brothers, to execute the commands of the daughter of Thaumas; and again he both drops his head, sunk in languid drowsiness, and shrinks back within the lofty couch.”

Fable 97

• child: Morpheus “But Father {Sleep}, out of the multitude of his thousand sons, raises Morpheus,[53] a {skilful} artist, and an imitator of {any human} shape.”
• with Iris (Iris delivers Juno's command to Sleep.) “Sleep, thou repose of all things; Sleep, thou gentlest of the Deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies, who dost soothe the hearts {of men}, wearied with the toils of the day, and refittest them for labour, command a vision, that resembles in similitude the real shape, to go to Halcyone, in Herculean Trachyn, in the form of the king, and to assume the form of one that has suffered shipwreck. Juno commands this.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.