See, lady Moon, where my love came from. I went colder than snow all over, and the sweat ran from my forehead like the damp dew. I could not say a word, not even the little sounds children make in their sleep, crying for their mother. My whole lovely body went stiff, like a doll's.

The refrain cuts into the sentence, and then the symptoms come all at once. Cholmeley sets these lines beside Sappho's poem of the lover who loses her voice, sweats and trembles at the sight of the one she loves (fragment 31). Sappho's lover feels a thin fire run under her skin; Simaetha goes colder than snow. The last image is a δαγύς. LSJ defines the word from this line alone: "wax doll, used in magic rites, puppet." Simaetha, who has spent the night working spells, remembers going as stiff as one.