- ὄναρ
- ὄναρ, τό (Hom. et al.; Herodas 1, 11; Pherecyd. 24; ins; Philo; Jos., Bell. 2, 112, Ant. 2, 63; 10, 195; Ath. 13, 1 οὐδʼ ὄναρ, but only in nom. and acc. sing.) dream, in our lit. only Mt chapters 1, 2, 27, and in the expr. κατʼ ὄναρ in a dream (rejected by Photius, Lex. p. 149, 25f as a barbarism [Lob., Phryn. p. 422ff], but attested fr. the time of Conon [I B.C./I A.D.]: 26 Fgm. 1, 35, 3 Jac., Apollo gives orders; Strabo 4, 1, 4; Anth. Pal. 11, 263, 1; Diog. L. 10, 32; Eunap. 55; CIG 4331 χρηματισθεὶς κατὰ ὄναρ=‘after an oracle had been given me in a dream’ [sim. of Sarapis IG XI/4, 13f ὁ θεός μοι ἐχρημάτισεν κατὰ τὸν ὕπνον]. Also SIG 1147; 1148/9; IPergamon 357, 8 [Schweizer 157]; IG XII/1, 979, 4f, but here means ‘as a result of a dream’ [Dssm., NB 81=BS 253], as Paus. Attic. λ, 28.—S. OWeinreich, θεοὶ ἐπήκοοι MAI 37, 1912, 43, n. 1) Mt 1:20; 2:12f, 19, 22; 27:19.—EEhrlich, D. Traum im AT ’53, D. Traum im Talmud: ZNW 47, ’56, 133–45; AWikenhauser, Pisciculi=Antike u. Christentum, Erg.-Bd. I ’39, 320–33; other lit. OSchönberger, Longos4 ’60, 178 n. on Longus 7, 1. On incubation oracles s. JGriffiths, Apuleius of Madauros 75, 139; EDodds, The Greeks and the Irrational ’51, 107–11.—B. 269. New Docs 1, 31; 3, 23. DELG. M-M. TW.
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