Yea, and mine also, poor although I be,
(Small offering, yet ’tis all the store I have,)
Give to him; yes, this lock, untrimmed,
Unmeet for suppliant’s vow.
The first discovered traces of the return of Orestes are offerings laid on their father’s tomb.
Chrysosthemis, the younger sister, says:—
And lo! my father’s bier was crowned
With garlands of all flowers that deck the fields;
And, seeing it, I wondered, and looked round,
Lest any man should still be hovering near;