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MORPHEUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 862 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORPHEUS  , in

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Roman
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mythology, one of the sons of
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Somnus, the
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god of
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sleep . He was a personification, apparently invented by
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Ovid (Metam. xi . 635), of the
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power that calls up human shapes (uopcbai) of all kinds to the dreamer . His
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brothers Phobetor and Phantasus assumed the forms of all kinds of animals and inanimate things .

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