Duly and fully—with hyssop and the blood of swine?
Orestes.
With better sacrifices than swine! I am clean enough to make amends to your goddess. [Coming across to the shrine.] Where shall I lay it? For I may need her favour. [Holds out the gold pendant.
Priest.
[Surprised.] Gold! Stranger, it is well to give gold to Thetis, but——
Orestes.
Well, I give it to Thetis!
Priest.
Scarce a man in Phthia has ever touched gold, save Pyrrhus himself and the servants of Hermione. Nor many, I should guess, in Acarnania.
Orestes.