“Go, my Hermione, without the door,
And these libations take, and take my hair,
And, standing over Clytemnestra’s tomb,
Milk-mingled honey and the winy foam
Pour, and thus speak.”—Eurip., Orest. 112.
“And with the due libation’s triple flow
She crowns the corpse.”—Soph. Antig., 429.
The χοᾶισι πρισπόνδαισι, being the wine, water, and milk, particularised in the above extract from Homer. Compare Virgil’s Æn. V. 78, and St. Augustine’s Confessions vi. 2, with regard to his mother’s offering at the tombs of the martyrs—pultes et panem et merum.
“. . . as who throws lustral ashes.”