Drink from the live wing, sew the head to the pillow

Let someone pull out a whole wing of it while it is alive and use it as a scraper-scoop for drawing drink — infrequently if for a short time, but often and with both wings if someone needs long watches. If someone uses this drink without measure, he will remain sleepless altogether.

If you should also wish to play a trick by throwing someone into sleeplessness, take the head of a living one and sew it to the pillow where it is his custom to sleep. He will not sleep, as if he had hung the whole creature about him; for it keeps sleepless throughout the one who wears it so.

You are Night's child, O Sleep; a bird of night beats you. Even if you happen to be winged, I too forestall you with another wing. Thus the marriage of Pasithea to Sleep.

Eros stays awake; and the theft of the wing is the pledge under Hera of this. What wonder if Hera received this too from the Charites? For she borrowed the cestus-bands from Aphrodite.

If then you recognized the animal from the tokens — for it is not set out unclearly or hard to grasp — you might perhaps be praised. If not, you will find it lying at the end in pentagon 9, toward the signs of the middles of the enharmonic Lydian mode — and it is toward the last ones — pi and a reversed sigma.