Try Apollonius Rhodius 3. 744-50 (setting up the contrast with the sleepless Medea)
because the phrase exactly conveys the feeling of a poetic nightpiece---which, by the way, I'm sure must be a form antedating Virgil, but I can't cite examples.
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