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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 See also:

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

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