Agamemnon (a raised mound of earth) is seen in the background.
Enter Orestes and Pylades from the left; Orestes advances to the mound, and, as he speaks, lays on it a lock of his hair.
Orest. O Hermes of the darkness 'neath the earth,
Who hast the charge of all thy Father's[[401]] sway,
To me who pray deliverer, helper be;
For I to this land come, from exile come,
And on the raised mound of this monument
I bid my father hear and list. One tress,
Thank-offering for the gifts that fed my youth,
To Inachos I consecrate, and this